TEPCO Visits Unit 1

TEPCO engineers visually inspect the reactor building floor housing the Isolation Condenser of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 in Oct, 2011. This must be their first visit after the unit's refueling floor was destroyed by a hydrogen explosion the day after the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami precipitated a total station blackout, Mar 11, 2011, and the reactor fuel core melted down (TEPCO press release -36 s, Oct 21, 2011).

I received a no-reply e-mail from the YouTube team dated Feb. 25, 2012, with this message:
"Your video, TEPCO Visits Unit 1, may have content that is owned or licensed by TV Asahi Corporation." with a link telling that this video cannot be viewed in some countries.

Tokyo Electric Power Company released the original video Oct. 21, 2011, alas without captions in English. The original video can be viewed and downloaded here: www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/library/movie-01e.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• TEPCO
• Fukushima
• Dai-ichi
• Unit 1
• Isolation Condenser
• October
• visual inspection

[melzerpeter]

If you wish for more explanation, visit brainmindinst.blogspot.com/201­1/05/fukushima-failure-of-mind­.html and check out the addenda.

[melzerpeter]

You may note a CC button on the bottom bar. A friend was so kind to translate a good part of the conversation into English. Note that the radiation levels were quite high on the third floor near the piping and valves for the isolation condenser (at ca. 13:00). Exposed to 100 milliSv/h, we would develop symptoms of acute radiation syndrome in ten hours!

[melzerpeter]

I wish I knew. Japanese anyone? I suspect the men were sent to check equipment like the isolation condensers, that is the reddish twin boiler structure that can be seen overhead at times, for obvious damage. Plus, they were reading the gauge dials under the caps that one of them screwed out and let roll off (bing...bing... bing) at various locations.

[youngdones]

What exactly are they trying to do?

[StillNoGuitar]

Translation anyone?