New Robot Torus Room Inspections Under Preparation In Fukushima Unit 2
Two newer underwater robots are being used to inspect the torus rooms of units 1 and 2. The robots built
Read moreTwo newer underwater robots are being used to inspect the torus rooms of units 1 and 2. The robots built
Read moreTEPCO did inspection work at Unit 2 in the torus with the Toshiba walker-bot (it doesn’t have a name apparently)
Read moreTEPCO has released two photos and no other details of the robot investigation into the torus room (suppression chamber) area
Read moreTEPCO announced that the next phase of containment inspections inside unit 1 will finally take place in early 2022. This
Read moreThis is one section of our annual report, the full report can be found here. We will be posting a
Read moreThe inspection of the unit 1 reactor well began in July, continuing into the end of August. A trio of
Read moreThe long planned, next phase of inspection work inside unit 1 has finally been unveiled to the public. The plan
Read moreTEPCO and the various entities tasked with dealing with the disaster clean up at Fukushima Daiichi have announced details of
Read moreNew information has been released by TEPCO on unit 2’s missing fuel. This provides significant new clues to the meltdown
Read moreTEPCO and the associated research & decommissioning authorities recently published a new report outlining the effort to collect the remains
Read moreTEPCO and IRID announced that a new inspection scope has been developed to look into the unit 2 containment pedestal
Read moreThis is a continuing report on the new findings for the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi from the recent NDF Conference.
Read moreAsahi Shimbun is reporting that TEPCO has announced they would begin the robotic containment inspection of unit 2’s containment in
Read more3D inspections of the unit 3 torus room are set to begin December 22nd. This work is expected to investigate
Read moreA series of new robot investigations were announced by TEPCO last week. These efforts are to gather data about general
Read moreHitachi’s shape changing robot (at least one of them, they have more) is abandoned and dead inside the containment of
Read morePer Yahoo News Japan, the robot died about 2/3 of the way through the planned route. Specifics about what kind
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Block 2 Bericht 2015 (deutsche Übersetzung) Das SimplyInfo Research Team Dean Wilkie – Autor Edano San MD
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Report 2015 By The SimplyInfo Research Team Dean Wilkie – Author Edano San MD –
Read moreAs part of reviewing IRID’s updates on work progress for Fukushima Daiichi, new information about robots to be used and
Read moreHitachi GE conducted robot investigations into unit 2’s torus room on July 17th. The main focus of the work was
Read moreInspection work inside unit 1’s torus room to check pipe penetrations into the turbine building have been completed. Clay was
Read moreTEPCO’s new reports on the unit 1 torus room already showed that a vacuum breaker caused an issue. Now they
Read moreWhat are they doing? TEPCO & Hitachi are apparently looking for damage to the vacuum breaker pipes that run in
Read moreUnit 3 saw considerable work take place in the last year. The torus of this unit was considered to be
Read moreThese events and new information were found on unit 2 within the last year. TEPCO announced in July that they
Read moreWith the 3rd anniversary of the 3-11 triple disaster approaching we have taken a look at the changes that have
Read moreThe ultrasound robot has been run inside unit 2 to attempt to determine the water level for the torus tube.
Read moreNews 24 is reporting that TEPCO has admitted that the steel door for the MSIV room was found to be
Read moreRobots with sophisticated gamma scanning cameras were sent in to unit 1 to establish contaminated areas as decontamination efforts take
Read moreTEPCO has done test runs with the ultrasound robot intended to detect the water level inside the torus tubes at
Read moreTEPCO recently released videos and reports of their work in the unit 1 torus room. The work was split into
Read moreTEPCO has done an inspection of Unit 1’s torus room, this time with a floating robot boat. TEPCO released most
Read moreTEPCO has investigated the torus room of unit 1 with the new boat robot. This was an effort to look
Read moreTEPCO and Hitachi are working on a floating robot to inspect the torus area of the damaged reactors. The new
Read moreTEPCO buried new admissions about the reactor units and their damage in a couple of obscure reports. New unit 1
Read moreTEPCO has completed the last portion of the investigation of the torus and downcomer pipes in unit 2. The walking
Read moreOur review of the second year’s events surrounding the 3-11 disaster is broken into three parts. The first part covers
Read moreTEPCO sent the unnamed walker bot back into unit 2’s torus room for another inspection effort. This trip looked at
Read moreTEPCO recently inspected the unit 1 torus room for a second time as we reported here. Workers involved in the
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