On target for January cold shutdown - Reactor 3 set for injection of nitrogen

[kristopher]

On target for January cold shutdown - Reactor 3 set for injection of nitrogen
Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. was set Thursday to inject nitrogen into the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant's reactor 3 to reduce the risk of further hydrogen explosions, a significant step forward in the effort to contain the nuclear crisis that started March 11.

If successful, it will complete Tepco's goal of injecting the inert gas into all three crippled reactors by mid-July.

The utility and the government believe restoration work is basically on track as outlined in a road map. Tepco has already started operating a new system to circulate water around the three reactors to keep the nuclear fuel inside cool.

Under the road map, Tepco hopes to stabilize the crippled reactors by mid-July as the first step toward achieving cold shutdown by January at the latest.

Tepco and the government...

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110714x2.html


This article is glossing over the difficulties a bit, but progress at getting control of the situation is being made, albeit with many stumbles along the way.

[wtbymark]

1. where are they going to inject it?

the latest reports say no.s 1,2 &3 all had melt downs and then melt through(s). Are they going to inject the gas into the dry well? because there is no more fuel left in the reactors, it's all under them. This is another bullshit PR line, they don't have a clue in what to do over there. In the end, 3 sarcophogi will have to be built, just like Chernobel. Oh yea, and decontaminate a town? Don't you think the russians would have done this to Pripyat if it were possible? well, it's not.

[Nihil]

2. If you'd bothered to read the OP article, you wouldn't have needed to ask the question.

> where are they going to inject it?

>> Nitrogen is being injected into the reactor's primary containment vessel

Read first, write second is a better way to approach the issue.


> because there is no more fuel left in the reactors, it's all under them.
> This is another bullshit PR line, they don't have a clue in what to do over there.

No. Yours is "another bullshit line". They know a hell of a lot more about it than
some panic-ridden twonk in Nevada ...

:eyes:

[SpoonFed]

4. You're criticisms are so well reasoned and politely stated...

I mean, TEPCO has been spot on with all of it's predictions, plans and even "data" at this point, it seems totally unreasonable that someone might question another TEPCO press release of future plans... :sarcasm:

I expect this to all go as well as their handling of...

a) cooling down the reactors before they exploded
b) informing the public and local constituents the true facts of the nuclear catastrophe they've created
c) removing the Cs/I from all the nuclear waste storage ponds they've been creating while trying to avoid even more massive environmental damage

The interesting thing you seemed to miss in the OP is that they are blatently admitting these things could go all ape shit again and explode again... which is something I've heard denied and ridiculed since about day one on here.

[Nihil]

5. Yes, they are usually so.

If the previous poster had been criticising TEPCO's incompetence
then I would have agreed.

If the previous poster had been simply criticising TEPCO's appalling
record on PR failures then I would have agreed.

As it was, the previous poster didn't bother to read the article,
put up a subject line that underscored their laziness and followed
it with a mindless panic-ridden post that only deserved contempt.

:hi:

(And, for the record, I have never attempted to deny that hydrogen
can explode when provided with a suitable amount of oxygen. My days
of expecting any nuclear power operator to behave competently with
regard to preventing such events however have evaporated since March,
a point that I have repeated several times on this forum.)

[Nihil]

3. K&R for good news ...

... and thanks for keeping us updated with the Japanese press rather
than just the RoW items.

:toast: