Internal Investigation Of Unit 3 Containment
TEPCO plans to do more internal inspections in Unit 3 containment around 2024. This article would not be
Read moreTEPCO plans to do more internal inspections in Unit 3 containment around 2024. This article would not be
Read moreAn inspection of Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 in June of 2021 shows a fatal design flaw of the BWR reactors
Read moreJapan’s nuclear regulator, aka the NRA, conducted an unpublicized inspection of unit 1 in late November. This inspection appears to
Read moreNHK is reporting that the containment inspection for Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 will finally take place in January 2022. The
Read moreWhile preparing for an inspection inside unit 2’s reactor well, workers found new damage. The reactor cavity differential pressure adjustment
Read moreAn inspection of unit 2’s spent fuel pool has been completed. This is what they found. The work was completed
Read moreTEPCO announced an upcoming inspection of unit 2’s spent fuel pool. The work will be done using an underwater ROV
Read moreTEPCO announced that work to prepare unit 1 for a new containment inspection has been completed. This work has been
Read moreTEPCO released these photos as part of the end of the month report. This is the first look at the
Read moreMuch anticipated inspection inside unit 1 containment.
Read moreOngoing work to cut an access hole into Unit 1’s containment for the upcoming robot inspection.
Read moreWork to cut a hole in personnel door into containment resumes.
Read moreThe inspection of the unit 1 reactor well began in July, continuing into the end of August. A trio of
Read moreThe first inspection of the unit 1 spent fuel pool has been conducted. Workers found visibility of about 7 meters
Read moreTEPCO published preliminary photos July 18th showing the start of inspection work of the reactor well for unit 1. Two
Read moreTEPCO will drill through the interior door of the X-2 penetration into containment in early June. This will allow full
Read moreUnit 2 pedestal containment inspection.
Read moreRevelations documented by The Mainichi from a late March press conference by TEPCO confirm our theories on unit 2. We
Read moreTEPCO and the various entities tasked with dealing with the disaster clean up at Fukushima Daiichi have announced details of
Read moreTEPCO completed another inspection inside unit 2 containment this week. The newest work involved attempting to move and grasp pieces
Read moreWe reported in late July that TEPCO would take additional readings inside unit 2’s refueling floor level. Those readings have now
Read moreWork has begun to remove a section of wall from the unit 2 reactor building. This is the same area
Read moreTEPCO and the associated research & decommissioning authorities recently published a new report outlining the effort to collect the remains
Read moreThe Southwest Research Insititute (SwRI) and University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab claim they have a drone capable of operating inside
Read moreOur research team has reviewed the limited information provided by after the most recent inspection of unit 2. While the
Read moreThe scope inspection of unit 2 will take place Friday. TEPCO is planning one day for this work. The scope
Read moreTEPCO and IRID announced that a new inspection scope has been developed to look into the unit 2 containment pedestal
Read moreTEPCO released additional information related to the pedestal area inspection inside unit 3. Among this new data was some unexpected
Read moreTEPCO has revised earlier radiation readings for unit 2’s containment inspection done earlier in 2017. They claimed a set of
Read moreDay 3 of the inspections inside the unit 3 pedestal have been concluded. TEPCO did not report if the ROV
Read moreTEPCO has announced that they have found what they believe is fuel residues inside the pedestal area of unit 3.
Read moreTEPCO announced that the containment inspections for unit 3 will start today. This will include a more direct inspection than
Read moreInvestigations of the unit 1 refueling floor area took place between November 2016 and February 2017. This area has been
Read moreIRID has released additional details about the damage found inside unit 2 on the recent inspections of the containment structures. A
Read moreTEPCO has completed a multiple day inspection of unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi. This new work used the PMORPH robot
Read moreWhile the press reported Scorpion’s mission as a failure, it did provide useful data before being abandoned. The robot appears
Read moreAn improved version of the Hitachi shape changing robot previously used at unit 1 has been unveiled by IRID. The
Read moreAsahi Shimbun has announced that the Scorpion robot (aka: Sasori) will attempt to enter unit 2’s containment structure by the
Read morePreparation work with a cleaning robot was abruptly abandoned today. This cleaning robot was preparing an area for the Scorpion robot to
Read moreTEPCO relayed verbally in the Monday press conference that the initial phase of the inspection of unit 2 containment will
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