(Just In from TEPCO Nuclear) Water Leak Near MSIV Room on 1st Floor of Reactor 3 Found by Worker Monitoring Live Images Taken by Robot

(UPDATE 1/18/2014) Video, additional information in the new post. The water is flowing fast.

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From TEPCO's email alert for the press in Japanese (1/18/2014):

福島第一原子力発電所３号機原子炉建屋１階主蒸気隔離弁室近傍における水漏れについて

Water leak found near the Main Steam Isolation Valve Room on the 1st floor of Reactor 3 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant

本日（１月18日）午後２時40分頃、３号機原子炉建屋瓦礫撤去用ロボットのカメラ画像を確認していた当社社員が、３号機原子炉建屋１階北東エリアの主蒸気隔離弁室の扉付近から、水が、当該扉近傍に設置されている床ドレンファンネル（排水口）に幅約30cmで流れ込んでいることを発見しました。

Today (January 18) at around 2:40PM, our employee who was monitoring the images taken by the camera mounted on the robot for removing the debris from the Reactor 3 building found the water running, at 30cm wide, from near the door to the Main Steam Isolation Valve Room located in the northeast area of the 1st floor of Reactor 3 into the floor drain funnel near the door.

当該漏えい水は、原子炉建屋最地下階の床ドレンサンプへつながる床ドレンファンネルへ流入しており、原子炉建屋外への流出はありません。

This water is flowing into the floor drain funnel that connects to the floor drain sump in the basement of the reactor building, and there is no leak from the reactor building to outside.

なお、モニタリングポスト指示値の有意な変動、およびプラントパラメータ（原子炉注水流量、原子炉圧力容器底部温度、格納容器内温度等）の異常は確認されておりません。

There is no statistically significant change observed at the monitoring posts and in the plant parameters (amount of water injected into the reactors, temperatures at the bottom of reactor pressure vessels, temperatures inside the containment vessels, etc.).

現在、漏えい状況および原因等を調査しております。

We are currently investigating the situation of the leak and the cause of the leak.

当該漏えい箇所の雰囲気線量は約30mSv/hです。

The ambient air dose rate near the leak is about 30 millisieverts/hour.

Reactor 3 first floor radiation levels (from my 7/23/2013 post):

Compared to other reactors that had explosive events (Reactor 2 did not have hydrogen explosions like Reactors 1 and 3, but some kind of event did seem to happen in the Suppression Chamber), Reactor 3's radiation levels are markedly higher.

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