Tepco will retry endoscope operation to reactor 2

 

Following up this article..Result of endoscope operation on 1/19/2012

Tepco is planning to check inside of reactor 2 with longer endoscope in late March.

They used 10m of endoscope last month, but they couldn’t see the water level because it was lower than they estimated.
They will use 18m of endoscope for the next time. They are going to use the same hole as last time.
They are also planning to measure the radiation level next time.

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福島第一原発2号機の格納容器で、東京電力は内視鏡による2度目の調査を行います。内視鏡を長くして、底に近い部分を調べるということです。

先月の調査は、長さが10メートルの内視鏡を使いました。しかし、冷却水の水位が予想より低く、水位や水温などが確認できませんでした。2度目は来月下旬に実施し、内視鏡の長さを18メートルにして格納容器の同じ貫通部から挿入するということです。線量計も入れて放射線量も測る予定です。また、東京電力は、汚染水からセシウム以外の放射性物質を取り除く新たな装置を導入します。ストロンチウムなどを最大で1000万分の1まで減らし、作業員の被ばくリスクを減らします。9月には稼働させたいとしています。

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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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