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Press Release (Jan 07,2012)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 10:00 am, January 7)
*The updates are underlined 
All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down. 
Unit 1 (Shut down) 
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed after the big quake 
  occurred at 3:36 pm on March 12, 2011. It was assumed to be hydrogen 
  explosion.
- At 3:37 pm on March 25, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the 
  reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered 
  by the off-site transmission line. 
- At 10:11 am on December 10, 2011, in addition to water injection from 
  water feeding system, we started water injection from piping of core 
  spray system to the reactor.
  Current water injection volume is approx. 4.6 ㎥/h from the reactor feed 
  water system and approx. 2 ㎥/h from the core spray system.
- At 1:31 am on April 7, 2011, we commenced injection of nitrogen gas into 
  Primary Containment Vessel.
- At 11:22 am on August 10, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water 
  in the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel 
  Pool Cooling and Filtering System. 
- On October 28, 2011, we completed installation of the cover for the 
  Reactor Building in order to contain dispersion of radioactive 
  substances.
- At 4:04 pm on November 30, 2011, we started operation to inject nitrogen 
  into the reactor pressure vessel.
- At 6:00 pm on December 19, 2011, a full-scale operation of the PCV gas 
  management system started. 
Unit 2 (Shut down) 
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15, 2011, an abnormal noise began 
  emanating from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure 
  within the chamber decreased. 
- At 10:10 am on March 26, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the 
  reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered 
  by the off-site transmission line. 
- At 2:59 pm on September 14, 2011, in addition to water injection from 
  water feeding system, we started water injection from piping of core 
  spray system to the reactor.
  Current water injection volume is approx. 0.7 ㎥/h from the reactor feed 
  water system and approx. 9 ㎥/h from the core spray system.
- At 5:21 pm on May 31, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in 
  the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool 
  Cooling and Filtering System.
- At 8:06 pm on June 28, 2011, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the 
  Primary Containment Vessel.
- At 6:00 pm on October 28, 2011, a full-scale operation of the PCV gas 
  management system started.
- At 10:46 am on December 1, 2011, we started the nitrogen injection to 
  the Reactor Pressure Vessel. 
Unit 3 (Shut down) 
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed at approximately 11:01 am 
  on March 14, 2011. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At 6:02 pm on March 25, 2011, we started injecting fresh water to the 
  reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered 
  by the off-site transmission line.
- At 2:58 pm on September 1, 2011, we started water injection by core 
  spray system in addition to water injection by the reactor feed water 
  system piping arrangement. 
  Current water injection volume is approx 2.9 ㎥/h from the reactor feed 
  water system and approx. 6 ㎥/h from the core spray system.
- At 7:47 pm on June 30, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in 
  the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool 
  Cooling and Filtering System.
  As a trend in decrease of Primary Circulation Pump's suction pressure is 
  continuing at this device, at 11:46 am on January 5, 2012, we 
  temporarily stopped the SFP cooling by shutting down the pump for a 
  replacement of the strainer at the pump's inlet. We plan to continue the 
  pump's shutdown until January 7, while the expected temperature increase 
  at the SFP water is around 0.25°C (SFP water temperature: 23.7°C)
- At 8:01 pm on July 14, 2011, injection of nitrogen gas into the Primary 
  Containment Vessel started. 
- At 4:26 pm on November 30, 2011, we started operation to inject nitrogen 
  into the reactor pressure vessel. 
Unit 4 (Outage due to regular inspection) 
- At around 6 am on March 15, 2011, we confirmed the explosive sound and 
  the sustained damage around the 5th floor rooftop area of Reactor 
  Building.
- At 12:44 pm on July 31, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in 
  the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool 
  Cooling and Filtering System.
- At 10:58 am on November 29, 2011, in order to decrease more salinity, we 
  installed Ion exchange equipment and started the operation of such 
  equipment.
- At this moment, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage 
  inside the primary containment vessel. 
Unit 5 (Outage due to regular inspection) 
- Sufficient level of reactor coolant to ensure safety is maintained.
- At 5:00 am on March 19, 2011, we started the Residual Heat Removal 
  System Pump in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 2:45 pm on July 15, 2011, we started the operation of the original 
  Residual Heat Removal System (System B) by its original seawater pump.
- At 10:11 am on December 22, 2011, since we finished the recovery work of 
  seawater pump (System B) of equipment water cooling system, we made a 
  trial run. At 11:25 am on the same day, we confirmed no abnormalities 
  and restarted the operation.
- At this moment, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage 
  inside the primary containment vessel. 
Unit 6 (Outage due to regular inspection) 
- Sufficient level of reactor coolant to ensure safety is maintained.
- At 10:14 pm on March 19, 2011, we started the Residual Heat Removal 
  System Pump of Unit 6 to cool down Spent Fuel Pool.
- At 2:33 pm on September 15, 2011, we started separately cooling the 
  reactor through the Residual Heat Removal System and the spent fuel pool 
  through Equipment Cooling Water System and Fuel Pool Cooling System.
- At this moment, we do not think there is any reactor coolant leakage 
  inside PCV. 
Others 
- At around 10 am on June 13, 2011, we started the operation of the 
  circulating seawater purification facility installed at the screen area 
  of Unit 2 and 3.
- At 8 pm on June 17, 2011, we started operation of Water Treatment 
  Facility against the accumulated water. At 6:00 pm on July 2, we started 
  the circulating injection cooling to inject the water, which was treated 
  by the accumulated water treatment system, to the reactors through the 
  buffer tank.
- At 7:41 pm on August 19, 2011, we started treatment of accumulated water 
  by parallel operation of one line from the cesium adsorption instrument 
  to the decontamination instrument and the other treatment line of the 
  cesium adsorption instrument No.2.
- At 2:06 pm on October 7, 2011, we started to spray purified accumulated 
  water brought from Unit 5 and 6 continually in order to prevent dust 
  scattering and potential fire outbreaks from the cut down trees.
- On October 28, 2011, we started installation of the water proof wall at 
  the sea side, in front of the existing shore protection, Units 1-4, in 
  order to contain marine pollution by underground water.
- At 12:25 pm on December 13, 2011, we started the re-circulating 
  operation of desalination facility (reverse osmosis membrane type) for 
  the purpose of suppression of condensed water after desalination 
  treatment.
- At 10:01 am on January 3, 2012, we started to transfer accumulated water 
  from the basement of turbine building of Unit 3 to the Centralized 
  Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume 
  Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building] and 
  the Process Main Building).
- At 9:30 am on January 5 2012, we started transferring accumulated water 
  from the ground floor of the turbine building of Unit 2 to the 
  Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid 
  Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator 
  Building] and the Process Main Building).
- On December 18, 2011, we found accumulated water in the trench located 
  between the process main building of Centralized Radiation Waste 
  Treatment Facility and Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction 
  Treatment Building (High Temperature Incinerator Building). After that 
  we confirmed that water inflow from cable duct near the ceiling of the 
  trench. As a result of the inspection, the cable duct was used for the 
  PHS line and led to the electric wire duct line of the outdoor lighting, 
  and we estimated that the puddle of water near the lighting flowed 
  through the opening of electric wire duct line which was damaged by a 
  tsunami, into the trench. On January 5, 2012, we cut the cable duct line 
  and carried out water stops work with seal materials and seal tape at 
  both entrance and exit sides of the duct line. On January 6, we 
  confirmed that there is no inflow of the water into the trench from the 
  cable duct line. For the concerned trench, we will investigate for the 
  identification the leak in point of the highly-concentrated radioactive 
  contaminated water sequentially, and examine and carry out the 
  investigation to determine the causes and recurrence preventive measures, 
  and carry out the check for other trenches in the Fukushima Daiichi 
  Nuclear Power Plant. 
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