Tepco is struggling with reactor 2

Tepco is struggling with reactor 2

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Tepco is stil struggling with cooling reactor2. On 2/8/2012, the bottom of the reactor is 65.4℃. It decreased by 3℃ since yesterday, but still it remains high.

Other two points of heat gauges are becoming cooler, between 38℃~39℃. Also, Tepco stated they didn’t measure Xe135. However, all they could do is only to watch the situation.

Additionally, Tepco found 4 of 990 contaminated water storage tanks leaking. 6 tanks have leaked in total so far.

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福島第1原発:2号機が65.4度 温度高止まり

東京電力は8日、福島第1原発2号機の原子炉圧力容器底部の温度が、同日午後5時現在で65.4度になったと発表した。前日比では約3度下がったものの高温傾向を維持しているため、東電は監視を続けている。

東電によると、ほぼ同じ位置にある二つの温度計は38~39度で、低下傾向を示しているという。また、2号機の原子炉格納容器内にある気体をサンプリングして分析した結果、核分裂が連鎖的に起こる「再臨界」の際に発生する放射性キセノンはほとんど検出されなかった。東電の松本純一原子力・立地本部長代理は記者会見で「温度は低下傾向にあるが、もう数日様子を見極める必要がある」と述べた。

また東電は8日、第1原発内に設置した汚染水貯蔵タンク990基を点検した結果、新たに計4基で汚染水の漏れなどを見つけたと発表した。ボルトの緩みなどが原因。これまでに2基で水漏れが見つかったため、経済産業省原子力安全・保安院が全タンクの点検を東電に求めていた。【中西拓司】

毎日新聞 2012年2月8日 21時32分(最終更新 2月8日 21時33分)

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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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