Fukushima Reactor Status Report (per Fri eve Japan)

[jannyk]

Fukushima Daiichi plant

-- Reactor No. 1 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Saturday by hydrogen explosion, roof blown off, seawater being pumped in.

-- Reactor No. 2 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, seawater being pumped in, fuel rods fully exposed temporarily, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Monday by blast at reactor No. 3, blast sound heard near suppression pool of containment vessel on Tuesday, damage to containment vessel feared.

-- Reactor No. 3 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core feared, vapor vented, seawater being pumped in, building housing reactor damaged Monday by hydrogen explosion, high-level radiation measured nearby on Tuesday, plume of smoke observed Wednesday and presumed to have come from spent-fuel storage pool, seawater dumped over pool by helicopter on Thursday, water sprayed at it from ground on Thursday and Friday.

-- Reactor No. 4 - Under maintenance when quake struck, temperature in spent-fuel storage pool reaching 84 C on Monday, fire Tuesday possibly caused by hydrogen explosion at pool holding spent fuel rods, fire observed Wednesday at building housing reactor, pool water level feared receding, renewed nuclear chain reaction feared, only skeleton of building survived the fires.

-- Reactors No. 5, 6 - Under maintenance when quake struck, water temperatures in spent-fuel storage pools increased to about 64 C on Thursday.

-- Spent-fuel storage pools at all reactors - Cooling functions lost at all reactors, water temperatures or levels unobservable at reactors No. 1 to 4.


http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/79398.html

[godai]

1. Thanks...clear update of the situation. n/t

[jannyk]

2. Japan's nuclear crisis still doesn't warrant optimism: Kan (KyodoNews)

TOKYO, March 18, Kyodo

Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that Japan's nuclear crisis still does not warrant optimism, but he believes the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi power station following last week's calamitous earthquake and tsunami will be resolved soon.

Kan admitted that the problems at the nuclear plant, including explosions and radiation leaks, are very serious. But he said, ''In the not-so-distant future, we will thoroughly control the whole thing.''

''I'd like to tell the people that we are making utmost efforts to overcome this kind of (unpredictable) situation,'' he said, adding that the government has committed to providing all information about the nuclear crisis to the people and the international community.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/79442.html

[drm604]

3. Accidentally unrecced.

Sorry.:blush: