From: Kazuhito Takeda
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:11 AM
To:
tepco@tepco.co.uk
Subject: TEPCO Digest (Fact Announcement / Mar 21 2011)Watering to the spent fuel pools in Daiichi site(as of 8:50 local time Mar.21)
Watering to the spent fuel pools in Daiichi site(as of 8:50am local time Mar.21)
*Underlined are new
[Unit 4]
- Self-Defense Force’s fire-engines watered Unit 4 from 6:30am to 8:40am on 21th Mar.
Total amount of water approx. 90 t
10 tons x 6 fire engines (owned by Self-Defense Force)
5 tons x 6 fire engines (owned by Self-Defense Force)
2 tons x 1 fire engine
[Unit 3]
<First watering by Hyper Rescue>
- Hyper Rescue, a fire-engine with a long watering arm-pipe, poured water into the spent fuel pool of Daiichi Unit 3 from 0:30 to 1:10 (local time) Mar. 19th.
Number of Hyper Rescue : 1 (The Tokyo Fire Department)
Capacity : 3000 ( l / min )
Length of arm-pipe : 22 m
Amount of poured water :120 t (seawater)
- We suspended pouring water, because the restoration work of the external power supply was scheduled subsequently.
<Second watering by Hyper Rescue>
- Hyper Rescue watered toward Unit3 pool from 14:10 Mar 19 to 3:40 Mar 20 continuously.
Watering rate : 3000 ( l / min ) (seawater)
<Third Watering by Hyper Rescue>
- Hyper Rescue watered toward Unit3 pool from 21:30 Mar 20 to 3:58 Mar 21 continuously.
Watering rate : 3000 ( l / min ) (seawater)
[Radiation level]
14:00 Mar.19 : 3443 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3
3:14 Mar.20 : 2758 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3
21:30 Mar.20 : 2518 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3
4:00 Mar.21 : 2362 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3
6:30, Mar. 21 : 2,319 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3
8:50, Mar. 21 : 2,126 micro Sv/h at approx. 500m north of Unit3