Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool Damage Inspection
TEPCO reported in late November on some ongoing work to inspect the remaining fuel and equipment in the Unit 3
Read moreTEPCO reported in late November on some ongoing work to inspect the remaining fuel and equipment in the Unit 3
Read moreTEPCO has completed the installation of a floating air bag to protect the spent fuel pool at unit 1, Fukushima
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 has added an additional option to their plans for the removal of spent fuel from unit 1 at Fukushima
Read moreAn RHR (reactor heat removal) pump at Fukushima Daiichi unit 6 failed on November 19th. The suppression chamber suction valve
Read moreThe first inspection of the unit 1 spent fuel pool has been conducted. Workers found visibility of about 7 meters
Read moreFukushima Unit 1 has been the site of significant new work on multiple fronts. We outline the new events and
Read moreTEPCO recently published a video of the work to remove spent fuel from the unit 3 fuel pool. In this
Read moreTEPCO published a handout covering the recent worker training for a rather low tech system to refill unit 3’s spent
Read moreTEPCO began installing the first sections of the defueling building this week. The decking is the first portion of what
Read moreThe remains of the unit 3 fuel handling crane will be removed from the spent fuel pool August 2nd. TEPCO
Read moreTEPCO plans to remove the remains of the fuel crane from the pool this week using a special pair of
Read moreTEPCO released significant new information about the plan and progress for dealing with unit 3’s spent fuel pool. The report
Read moreThe unit 3 spent fuel pool gate was inspected further after concerns that the fuel handling crane could have damaged
Read moreNHK is reporting that TEPCO has admitted that two spent fuel pool gates at unit 3 are damaged. They described the first
Read moreAn oil leak occurred in the spent fuel pool of unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi today as work was under
Read more1276 fuel assemblies have been removed from the unit 4 spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi. Work resumed after an
Read moreTEPCO reported that as of September 16, 2014 they have removed 1254 fuel assemblies from unit 4’s fuel pool. This
Read moreTEPCO is reporting that the console portion of the refueling machine that fell into the spent fuel pool of unit 3
Read moreA brief note in the daily reports mentioned that TEPCO will be pausing cooling to the unit 3 spent fuel
Read moreTEPCO still has not given any further information about the needed repair of the leaking valve for the main cooling
Read moreUnit 5 continues to operate on shared cooling with the reactor vessel. Graphs of hourly temperature data pulled today show
Read moreTEPCO’s statements earlier this week that they would use a back and forth method of cooling the spent fuel pool
Read moreYesterday TEPCO reported that they had restarted the regular cooling system of unit 5’s spent fuel pool. The report indicated
Read moreThe refueling crane that crashed into the spent fuel pool of unit 3 has begun leaking oil into the pool.
Read more638 spent fuel assemblies have been removed from the unit 4 spent fuel pool to the common pool as of
Read moreTEPCO reported they will now remove the salt from the unit 1 spent fuel pool. Maybe you are asking why
Read moreTEPCO has accomplished some debris removal from the spent fuel pool as documented in this report. Earlier in 2014 work
Read moreAccording to a document TEPCO released this week, as long as third party inspections are passed Thursday and Friday work
Read moreThis news report contains two critical pieces of information regarding the removal of used fuel at unit 4. TEPCO admits
Read moreA series of videos were released recently showing sections of the spent fuel pool at unit 3 of Fukushima Daiichi.
Read moreIn an attempt to better understand how the crane is situated in the spent fuel pool of unit 3 we
Read moreTEPCO released a new video and handout of the unit 3 mast that fell deeper into the spent fuel pool.
Read moreTEPCO announced this week that the 1.5 ton mast for the refueling crane fell into the pool and sank as
Read morefukuleaks.org/web has released another new paper taking an in depth look into the ongoing challenges at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
Read moreThe fukuleaks.org/web research team has issued a new set of papers on corrosion factors at Fukushima Daiichi. The main paper
Read moreUnit 4 Spent Fuel Pool Issues: We went in depth on the issues with Unit 4’s spent fuel pool in
Read moreTEPCO finally released the videos of the unit 3 spent fuel pool. The videos do give a better look at
Read moreThe following is an in depth look at spent fuel pools and how these technical factors impact the disaster at
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