White smoke came out from cesium absorption tower

At around 9:40 AM on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, a worker of  Tepco’s cooperative company found white smoke coming out from the motor of the vacuum pump for vessel ventilation at the outdoor cesium absorption tower temporary
storage facility in the south of the central environment facility at Fukushima Plant. After turning off the power of the pump, the smoke stopped coming out.

 

平成24年10月2日(火)午前9時40分頃、福島原発集中環境施設南側の屋外セシウム吸着塔仮保管施設において、ベッセル換気用真空ポンプのモータから煙が発生していることを東電の協力企業作業員が発見しました。当該ポンプの電源を停止し、発煙が停止したことを確認したということです。

 

White smoke came out from cesium absorption tower

 

White smoke came out from cesium absorption tower 2

 

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Français :

Une fumée blanche sort de la tour d’absorption du césium

Ce mardi 2 octobre 2012 vers 09:40, un ouvrier de la compagnie coopérative de Tepco a vu une fumée blanche sortant du moteur de la pompe à vide de ventilation de l’enceinte à l’extérieur de la tour provisoire d’absorption et de stockage du césium au sud du bâtiment principal de contrôle de l’environnement de la centrale de Fukushima. Après avoir coupé le courant de la pompe, la fumée s’est arrêtée d’en sortir.

平成24年10月2日(火)午前9時40分頃、福島原発集中環境施設南側の屋外セシウム吸着塔仮保管施設において、ベッセル換気用真空ポンプのモータから煙が発生していることを東電の協力企業作業員が発見しました。当該ポンプの電源を停止し、発煙が停止したことを確認したということです。

Une fumée blanche sort de la tour d'absorbtion du césium

Une fumée blanche sort de la tour d'absorbtion du césium 2

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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