Blackout at Fukushima

Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:09 pm » by **WillEase666**

March 18, 2013 report from Kyodo News with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:

Power blackout took place in Fukushima plant. The coolant system of the spent fuel pools in reactor1, 3, 4 are stopped.

Systran Translation:

It has a power failure with the Fukushima 1st nuclear plant. 1, 3 and 4 the spent fuel pool alternative cooling system and the like of the machine stops.

According to TEPCO and the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority, around 19:00 on Monday night, the seismic building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had experienced a power failure. While the outage did not affect the monitoring instruments in the reactor containment, it did affect the spent fuel pool cooling system at Unit 1, Unit 3, and Unit 4.

Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:15 pm » by **WillEase666**

This is serious shit folks! :scary:

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Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:23 pm » by **WillEase666**

Power failure in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, fuel pool cooling system stop

Yomiuri delivery 27 minutes (Mon) 22:00, March 18

According to TEPCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, 18 around 7 pm, power outages, etc. important seismic isolation building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Important building power of seismic isolation has become the command post of the convergence work accident will recover soon, there were no problems such as temperature monitoring of the reactor. However, some abnormality occurs in the power system of a power outage, currently 40 minutes at 9:00 pm on the same day, the cooling system of temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel pool has stopped at the No. 1, 3, and 4.

A pool of three groups, a total of 2500 spent fuel invention is accommodated. Temperature of the pool is about 25 degrees the highest in Unit 4. Also stops cooling, the temperature rise of the current is small, to reach a maximum of 65 degrees of management, that there is a margin of about 4 days. In addition, I have also stopped contaminated water treatment equipment.

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Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:27 pm » by **WillEase666**

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Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:11 pm » by **WillEase666**

Published on Mar 19, 2013

http://www.euronews.com/ Japan's tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has suffered a power failure affecting some of the pools of water used to cool radioactive fuel rods.

The loss of electricity began on Monday night. For now, the situation is not deemed to dangerous, however if electricity is not restored, the temperature in one of the pools could rise to unsafe levels in four days.

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