Japan Earthquake: Nuclear Plants at Fukushima Daiichi

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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is facing significant challenges following the earthquake, with reports indicating that reactor pressure has reached dangerous levels, potentially 2.1 times capacity. TEPCO has lost control of pressure at a second unit, raising concerns about safety and management accountability. The reactor is currently off but continues to produce decay heat, necessitating cooling to prevent a meltdown. There are conflicting reports about an explosion, with indications that it may have originated from a buildup of hydrogen around the containment vessel. The situation remains serious, and TEPCO plans to flood the containment vessel with seawater as a cooling measure.
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tsutsuji said:
27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, steering committee (9th meeting)

3-1 Cooling by closed loop water injection
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_01j.pdf Nitrogen injection into unit 1's suppression chamber

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We all owe a vote of thanks to Tsutsuji-san for his extraordinary work.
Without his efforts, there would be essentially no ongoing english language coverage of this unprecedented engineering effort. Instead, we are getting almost real time updates on the clean up as it progresses.
I am impressed by the effort put forth, even though we can deplore that this huge investment will at best be a dead weight loss to the Japanese economy.
 
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etudiant said:
We all owe a vote of thanks to Tsutsuji-san for his extraordinary work.
Without his efforts, there would be essentially no ongoing english language coverage of this unprecedented engineering effort. Instead, we are getting almost real time updates on the clean up as it progresses.
I am impressed by the effort put forth, even though we can deplore that this huge investment will at best be a dead weight loss to the Japanese economy.
Those four units were a loss to the Japanese economy as soon as the tsunami hit and took out the ECCSs followed by flooding with seawater. The recovery (and decontamination and decomissinoning) adds more to the loss column. They also lost the infrastructure and housing that was destroyed by the tsunami - not to mention the loss of life.

The cost to replace the power plants on the order of $billions.
 
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etudiant said:
We all owe a vote of thanks to Tsutsuji-san for his extraordinary work.
Without his efforts, there would be essentially no ongoing english language coverage of this unprecedented engineering effort. Instead, we are getting almost real time updates on the clean up as it progresses.
I am impressed by the effort put forth, even though we can deplore that this huge investment will at best be a dead weight loss to the Japanese economy.

Hear Hear, thank you Tsutsuji!
 
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etudiant said:
We all owe a vote of thanks to Tsutsuji-san for his extraordinary work.
Without his efforts, there would be essentially no ongoing english language coverage of this unprecedented engineering effort. Instead, we are getting almost real time updates on the clean up as it progresses.
I am impressed by the effort put forth, even though we can deplore that this huge investment will at best be a dead weight loss to the Japanese economy.

Yes, Tsutsuji has made a tremendous and effective effort to keep us informed. I absolutely appreciate it.
 
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etudiant said:
I am impressed by the effort put forth, even though we can deplore that this huge investment will at best be a dead weight loss to the Japanese economy.

The burden of the Chernobyl clean-up was no small part in the collapse of the Soviet Union either...
 
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Thanks everybody for the encouraging comments. I have started translating http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf "Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal" which will give a glimpse of the research & development planned by Toshiba/Hitachi/Mitsubishi over the longer term. But this will take me quite some time as these are 34 pages, some of which are rather dense.

The first diagram:
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mscharisma said:
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how they measure injection rates given that they can't actually look inside the reactors and see what arrives inside the vessel. And not knowing exactly where the core(s) is (are) and temperature gauges not necessarily working well or at all, I somehow can't seem to wrap my head around how they determine how much water is needed and, hence, whether or not it is getting to where it is needed.

Could someone here maybe offer a "dumbed-down" explanation for a non-technical person like me how this is done?

Many thanks.

No takers or too dumb or complicated a question? Thanks.
 
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mscharisma said:
No takers or too dumb or complicated a question? Thanks.
What _can_ they do, except do trial adjustment of injection while monitoring temperature trends. I'd expect them to be pretty 'familiar' by now with what can be expected by the beasts they are handling, although as you point out they are beasts pretty much inside black boxes.
 
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mscharisma said:
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how they measure injection rates given that they can't actually look inside the reactors and see what arrives inside the vessel. And not knowing exactly where the core(s) is (are) and temperature gauges not necessarily working well or at all, I somehow can't seem to wrap my head around how they determine how much water is needed and, hence, whether or not it is getting to where it is needed.
I assume that the reported injection rates are those measured before and/or after the pumps and that they don't know how much water actually reaches the damaged cores. But as MadderDoc says: It's not that important whether those numbers reflect the exact amount of water reaching the reactor insides but whether adjusting those rates changes other measurable parameters (temperature, pressure) at various measuring points.
 
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mach i think a simple heat balance suffices

they know the boundaries and how much they're pumping in and about how much heat the core is making, so they also know what should be conditions exiting those boundaries;
successful control of temperature coming out confirms those expectations.
 
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They also used crude but informative observations during the period last year where they were still trying to find the right balance. For example at reactor 2 they had seen steam from containment entering the upper building levels. When they looked again later (perhaps September) after making various changes to water flow rates & location , they saw no steam and the paint had flaked off of the overhead crane, suggesting the atmosphere was now much less humid.

They shouldn't have used the term cold shutdown, since that implies a routine state and this situation is anything but, and the term 'relatively stable' is fairer in my book. Relative to how unstable the reactors were earlier on, newsworthy events in the reactors that can be detected by humans have been few since the early months.

Knowledge about the state of the cores is obviously far more limited than we'd like, but its not surprising that it will take years to learn more. In the meantime I don't think many would claim that the available monitoring data is perfect, especially at reactor 2 where there are far too few correctly functioning temperature monitoring devices working in many important parts of the reactor. Indeed when many of these sensors started to go wrong, resulting concerns about reactor 2 temperature rises were the biggest safety scare we've had for a long time, until they decided it was faulty sensors rather than actual temperature rises. I think they just lost another temperature sensor at reactor 2 the other day, although it may not yet have officially been declared as broken quite yet. So they better hope the mission to try fitting replacement sensors works, though its certainly not an easy mission and the state of the reactor core may well be responsible for the problems they have already faced with an 'obstruction' at the end of the pipe they originally wanted to use. In the meantime they will just have to rely on temperature indications in other parts of the reactor, and observations such as the steam one I mentioned earlier.
 
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Some bits and bobs:

Over at Fukushima Daini reactor 4 they are going to open the top of containment and remove the RPV lid, steam dryer & separator on September 10th.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu12_e/images/120903e0403.pdf

The latest building integrity study of Daiichi reactor 4 found a few more cracks but nothing they think is significant. One of the photos that was originally part of this release caused a small internet stink because they had crudely photoshopped out the area of the west wall where the truck bay used to be before they demolished it. In response to the complaints they simply reissued the photo with the section cropped out instead of painted over, and mention security of nuclear material as the justification. Personally I do not suspect they were hiding anything too interesting, so its another one of those stories which is more about crude censorship backfiring, suspicion and lack of trust in official information than anything else. Anyway, here is the report:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120830_02-e.pdf

More recent attempts to discover the cause of the reactor water injection flow rate decreases are discussed in the September 7th plant status press release. The temperature sensor that has become suspect at reactor 2 is also mentioned:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2012/1218114_1870.html
 
  • #13,667
At this stage I sometimes wonder if I have missed any technical reports, so I was going through some older stuff and found an english document from June 15th that I don't think I have talked about before:

Technical knowledge of the Accident at Fukushima Dai-ici Nuclear Power Station:

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/press/2012/06/en20120615-1-1.pdf

It does not cover everything, or contain new information not seen elsewhere, but the areas it does look at are covered in pretty clear english.

Those interested in the containment equipment hatch at reactor 3 may be interested to check pages 33-37, where it discusses possible containment leak points at the reactors. They look at radiation levels detected at different points in the different reactors, and also analysis of hydrogen behaviour. They are quite clear to mention the possibility of leakage from the 'machine hatch' at reactor 3. Plenty else is discussed too, I just thought Id mention that one since on this thread we had quite a lengthy discussion about the equipment hatch at reactor 3, back when TEPCO sent a camera into that area. But as usual TEPCO were not talking usefully about leaks, leaving us to come up with our own narrative to go with the images.
 
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I forgot to mention there is also a large set of diagrams for that report:

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/press/2012/06/en20120615-1-2.pdf

For example diagrams relating to hydrogen leak point modelling are on pages 101-106 and pages 118-122 deal with the effect that an open blowout panel can have on hydrogen buildup.
 
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20120907/index.html The US National Academy of Sciences heard Tepco employees about the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Some tough remarks were made such as "Why wasn't there specialists on the site, able to give guidance about the condenser [the IC, I guess] ?", "there are problems with Japan's basic safety philosophy" (compared with the measures taken in the USA in consequence of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, like preparing manuals for worse case situations, and for the loss of offsite power with back-up power sources).

See also http://www.rttnews.com/1961281/tepco-quizzed-over-fukushima-preparedness.aspx?type=gn&Node=B1 (English)
 
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tsutsuji said:
27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

1) Previous related topics:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/111221e14.pdf (English) p. 54/94-94/94: "Research and Development Road Map for Decommissioning Units 1~4 at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant" (1st meeting of the Government-TEPCO Mid-and-long Term Response Council, 21 December 2011)

2) Translation: [installment 1: abstract]

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2) Translation: [installment 1: abstract]

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2) Translation: [installment 1: abstract]

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tsutsuji said:
Tepco is saying so in the note at the bottom of http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_01d.pdf page 1:

効率的な冷却のため,7/27,8/13に注水流量を減少させた結果,原子炉関連温度は上昇傾向を示しており,引き続き傾向監視を継続している。

Because cooling is efficient, water injection rate was reduced on 27 July and 13 August, and as a result, reactor related temperatures are indicating a rising trend. As a follow-up, we are continuously monitoring the trend.

Okay, so we have had slightly rising temperatures in June/July, subsequently a chiller installed, and then deliberately reduced water injection rates at stable temperatures. At the end of August, we have injections rates that inexplicably dropped below the required amounts and, one has to assume, again rising temperatures as at least one of the indicators for or results of that. (By the way, thanks to everyone who responded to my question how injection rates and what gets to the core is measured.)
Bottom line seems to be, temperatures are rising. No?
And we (or TEPCO) assume(s) its because its summer and/or because something is clogging up the pipes or valves or whatever.
And so here's my new question: with so many unknowns and variables, is the real message/news here not that temperatures are rising for uncertain reasons and we're all guessing why, likely including TEPCO?
 
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tsutsuji said:
27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4064968&posted=1#post4064968 Translation [installment 1: abstract]

Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]

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Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]

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Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]

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mscharisma said:
And so here's my new question: with so many unknowns and variables, is the real message/news here not that temperatures are rising for uncertain reasons and we're all guessing why, likely including TEPCO?
In some ways you could say that about many aspects of the disaster since day one. Thats why far more speculation has been allowed on the Fukushima topic than would normally be tolerated on a forum that holds the values of science dear.

But even at worst its still fairly educated guessing, often supported by more than one kind of observation or test.

In the case of these temperature changes its not hard for TEPCO etc to compare the ambient temperature, amount of sunlight and other weather issues with flow rates and the history of temperatures at the reactors, and to work out whether what is happening is within the bounds explained by seasonal variations. And let's not forget that the actual temperature increases have really not been anywhere close to substantial enough to warrant much exploration of alternative hypothesise.

And as for the flow rates, the drops in water injection rates seen since late August were certainly substantial enough for them to investigate. It now seems likely that a change of pipework at that time lead to foreign objects in the buffer tank, in this case plastic shavings:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120911_02-e.pdf
 
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tsutsuji said:
]27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4064974&posted=1#post4064974 Translation [installment 1: abstract]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4068601&posted=1#post4068601 Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]

Translation [installment 3: PCV leakage points identification]

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Translation [installment 3: PCV leakage points identification]

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  • #13,680
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20120912/0745_syasin.html Tepco is releasing 600 photographs taken from 11 March 2011 to 28 March 2011. "Because of bad coordination within the company, we were not able to fully grasp the photograph status and were late to release them. It is possible that more unreleased pictures are remaining, so we are checking in order to release them", they explain. Pictures showing accumulated water in power equipment rooms in unit 1 and unit 2 turbine buildings are included.

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html [the 600 new pictures are in the links numbered (1) to (40)]
 
  • #13,681
tsutsuji said:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20120912/0745_syasin.html Tepco is releasing 600 photographs taken from 11 March 2011 to 28 March 2011. "Because of bad coordination within the company, we were not able to fully grasp the photograph status and were late to release them. It is possible that more unreleased pictures are remaining, so we are checking in order to release them", they explain. Pictures showing accumulated water in power equipment rooms in unit 1 and unit 2 turbine buildings are included.

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html [the 600 new pictures are in the links numbered (1) to (40)]

Thanks. I would probably have found some of the photos on this particular page of that collection to be the most interesting if they had been released much earlier. Some (mostly numbers 4 & 11) show that area between reactor 3 & 4 where rather radioactive debris was discovered in a survey, and it looks like these photos are from before they 'bulldozed' over that area/turned the debris into a more concise pile.

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201209-j/120911-31j.html
 
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SteveElbows said:
Some (mostly numbers 4 & 11) show that area between reactor 3 & 4 where rather radioactive debris was discovered in a survey

Speaking of which, what building is this, does anyone know? Sorry for asking, I know I should have no trouble identifying it, but my memory is acting up again.

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_31/120911_295.jpg

also, is the large pipe in the bottom-left corner a part of the venting system?

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_31/120911_289.jpg
 
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tsutsuji said:
]27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4064974&posted=1#post4064974 Translation [installment 1: abstract]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4068601&posted=1#post4068601 Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4069889&posted=1#post4069889 Translation [installment 3: PCV leakage points identification]

Translation [installment 4: PCV repairs]

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Translation [installment 4: PCV repairs]

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  • #13,685
zapperzero said:
Speaking of which, what building is this, does anyone know? Sorry for asking, I know I should have no trouble identifying it, but my memory is acting up again.

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_31/120911_295.jpg

also, is the large pipe in the bottom-left corner a part of the venting system?

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_31/120911_289.jpg

I'm not sure what that building is for, but looking at the high quality aerial images from early on, its the building that is directly west of the shared reactor 3/4 stack tower.

The large pipe is the broken part of reactor 3 vent pipe that got plenty of attention at the time due to showing up so clearly on the same set of aerial photos.

Meanwhile I see they have now removed the reactor cap from the reactor 4 refuelling floor, just like they did with the containment cap:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120913_03-e.pdf

And they have done a new visual study of reactor 3 pool, or at least the state of the debris that is around the pools surface.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120913_02-e.pdf
 
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SteveElbows said:
I'm not sure what that building is for, but looking at the high quality aerial images from early on, its the building that is directly west of the shared reactor 3/4 stack tower.

EDIT: that would be the switching area, according to this:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/f9037506eaef.gif

The large pipe is the broken part of reactor 3 vent pipe that got plenty of attention at the time due to showing up so clearly on the same set of aerial photos.

So, yes. thanks, I was not sure. What a clean break, by the way! The bolts sheared and the whole thing just fell off. I wonder how hot it is.

EVEN LATER EDIT: here's another big pipe segment:
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_40/120911_590.jpg

from here
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201209-j/120911-40j.html

SOME MORE PIXEL-HUNTING LATER:
would this
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_39/120911_522.jpg

be the very same switching area? There is debris on the floor, apparently concrete from Unit 3 blowing up.
 
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SteveElbows said:
Meanwhile I see they have now removed the reactor cap from the reactor 4 refuelling floor, just like they did with the containment cap:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120913_03-e.pdf

I can be wrong but those big concrete pieces under the 'landed' cap looks like the top concrete shielding of the reactor well.

Ps.:
zapperzero said:
EVEN LATER EDIT: here's another big pipe segment:
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_40/120911_590.jpg
That will be a different pipe, not part of the venting system. You can see it's connections on this photo: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_40/120911_593.jpg
 
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a.ua. said:
It traces of tsunami.

No it is not, there is no silt. But upon looking more carefully, it appears that junk from the explosion hit it pretty hard. Some of it made it inside.
 
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zapperzero said:
<snip>

So, yes. thanks, I was not sure. What a clean break, by the way! The bolts sheared and the whole thing just fell off. I wonder how hot it is.
.

I'm not 100% sure but it's likely that the joints in the vent pipe are not bolted together as such, the joints have to allow for expansion so it's more like a "slip joint" hence the clean seperation.

zapperzero said:

Is that pipe the vertical stack that was attached to the exterior NW corner of [STRIKE]U3 [/STRIKE] U4 perhaps (edit cheers Steve, I should have checked)

zapperzero said:
SOME MORE PIXEL-HUNTING LATER:
would this
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120911_39/120911_522.jpg

be the very same switching area? There is debris on the floor, apparently concrete from Unit 3 blowing up.

EDIT : I'm having a bad day - my mistake - answer should have been no, different building - that interior shot is the Units 1 & 2 UHV switch building. Up on the hill west of Units 1 & 2
impacted by U3 explosion.
 
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westfield said:
Is that pipe the vertical stack that was attached to the exterior NW corner of U3 perhaps

Yes, but reactor 4 not reactor 3.
 
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zapperzero said:
No it is not, there is no silt. But upon looking more carefully, it appears that junk from the explosion hit it pretty hard. Some of it made it inside.

No visible tsunami damage to that building. The corner that is opened up is actually closer to unit 4. The images are not the best but it seems there might be more displaced cladding post U4 explosion.


After Tsunami, then after U3 explosion , finally after U4 explosion

PowerBuildingaftertsunami.jpg
PowerBuildingafterU3explosion2.jpg
PowerBuildingafterU4explosion.jpg
 
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westfield said:
No visible tsunami damage to that building. The corner that is opened up is actually closer to unit 4. The images are not the best but it seems there might be more displaced cladding post U4 explosion.

Yep. Thanks. You are of course referring to the concrete "cladding" of the switching building, yes?
 
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zapperzero said:
Yep. Thanks. You are of course referring to the concrete "cladding" of the switching building, yes?

I was looking at the sheet steel cladding that's come off that U3 & 4 HV switch building and is laying on the ground around it. The images are not great but I thought there may be more of the wall cladding laying around after the U4 explosion vs before. Difficult to say either way...looking for something more interesting in that bunch of unreleased images now.
 
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Unit 2 transformer yard - oil level is a little on the low side

th_120911_415.jpg
 
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tsutsuji said:
]27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4064974&posted=1#post4064974 Translation [installment 1: abstract]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4068601&posted=1#post4068601 Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4069889&posted=1#post4069889 Translation [installment 3: PCV leakage points identification]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4071111&posted=1#post4071111 Translation [installment 4: PCV repairs]

Translation [installment 5: surveys inside PCV]

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Translation [installment 5: surveys inside PCV]

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Translation [installment 5: surveys inside PCV]

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tsutsuji said:
]27 August 2012 government-Tokyo Electric mid and long term response committee, technical development progress headquarters (8th meeting) ( http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/20120827_02.html )

Document 2
http://www.meti.go.jp/earthquake/nuclear/pdf/120827/120827_02c.pdf Progress status of development of machinery and equipments to prepare fuel debris removal

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4064974&posted=1#post4064974 Translation [installment 1: abstract]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4068601&posted=1#post4068601 Translation [installment 2: remote decontamination]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4069889&posted=1#post4069889 Translation [installment 3: PCV leakage points identification]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4071111&posted=1#post4071111 Translation [installment 4: PCV repairs]
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4073726&posted=1#post4073726 Translation [installment 5: surveys inside PCV]

Translation [installment 6: RPV/PCV integrity assessment]

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Translation [installment 6: RPV/PCV integrity assessment]

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