Japan updates: Fukushima Daiichi, Hamaoka

-Chubu Electric intends to hold another board meeting very soon (probably early this week) to decide what to do about Naoto Kan's request to shut down all reactors at Hamaoka.

-TEPCO may enter No. 1 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi any time now. Once discussions with the government agencies (and that means the national safety entities like NSC and NISA as well as the prefectural government) are complete, TEPCO will send workers into No. 1 building. Until then, let's look at some TEPCO video showing the setup at the pressurized air lock that's been set up. This appears to show both the large Alara Venti units filtering the building air (these are sheathed) and the small units pressurizing the air lock (not sheathed.)


We also have a new video this morning from TEPCO taking a much longer look in the spent fuel pool at No. 4 plant.


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