January 12th – On the 12th local time, the Central Power Company of Japan said that there was a water leakage accident at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, with a total leakage of more than 110 tons.
According to a report by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency on the 12th, the water leakage accident occurred in Unit 1 of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, which 110 tons of fire water were leaked, of which about 15 tons went into the building where the nuclear reactor was located and about 95 tons went into the sink temporarily storing nuclear sewage.
The Central Power Company, the operator of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant, said that in the early morning of the 9th, a water leakage alarm sounded in the turbine room, and the staff found that the building where the nuclear reactor was located had been seriously flooded.
Unit 1 of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant is working on the waste furnace, and the central power said that the leakage has no external impact.
