Outline of circulation and injection system of cooling water for Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. TEPCO via ex-skf.blogspot.com

By arevamirpal::laprimavera
2 July 2011 The whole process is as follows:

  1. Take the highly contaminated water that has been stored in the Central Waste Processing Facility (about 120,000 tonnes of it) to the water treatment system;
  2. The water first goes through the oil separating system built by Toshiba;
  3. The water then goes to the system by Kurion, where different types of zeolite will remove 1) the oil/technetium, 2) cesium, and 3) iodine;
  4. Then it goes to the system by AREVA, where it gets further decontaminated; if TEPCO decides so, the AREVA system can come before Kurion;
  5. Then finally it goes to the desalination system built by Hitachi.
  6. After desalination, the “treated” water is stored in a series of tanks;
  7. The treated water is fed through the 10-centimeter diameter PVC pipes to the Reactor Pressure Vessels of the Reactors 1, 2, 3;
  8. The water will leak through the RPVs and the Containment Vessels down to the reactor basements;
  9. Again highly contaminated, the water then is routed from the basements of the Reactors 2 and 3 to the Central Waste Processing Facility;
  10. Start at No.1 again.

To see the convoluted schematics, see my post here. […]

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