- With the power still down, the valves will have to be opened manually. With heavy hearts, some workers ask if they can evacuate to a safer location.
- The first team enters the reactor building of Unit # 1. The radiation levels are higher than expected and team 1 has to hurry.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) prepares a report on the data received. They simulate that if venting is not completed by 11 PM on March 12th, the Primary Containment Vessel will explode. This will release large amounts of radioactive materials in an area of 3-5 Kms from the nuclear plant and the radiation levels will reach a few Sieverts in the area outside of the power plant. Several citizens will be exposed to high radiation levels.
There was a catastrophic accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant at Tokai in 1999. This was the last time the radiation level reached that high. Several workers got severe radiation burns. As the cellular structures and the DNA of the body disintegrated, the people's bodies simply dissolved.
Chief of NISA does not report this to the PM as the PM had already been livid at him for not having any current information. This was also information that the PM already knew.
Team 1 has to navigate narrow ladders with all their equipment, as they make their way to the MO valve. The valve is jammed, but with great effort Furusan is able to open it to 25%. They return to the control room. The pressure in the Primary Containment Vessel is now 840 Kpa. Furusan took an exposure of 20 MSV and Osugi took an exposure of 25 MSV, which was within safe limits. But the MO valve was outside the main reaction chamber, but the AO valve is right above the suppression chamber and could have higher levels of radiation.
Team 2 reaches outside of the main reaction chamber at 9 28 AM. The radiation levels outside the walls are 500 MSV. Immediately inside, the radiation levels jump to 900 MSV per hour. The team proceeds deep inside the chamber but has to retreat as the dosimeter hits 80 MSV. When they return their dosimeters read 89 and 95 MSV respectively, dangerously close to the annual exposure limits.
The young operators at the control room ask Maejima to be allowed to be evacuated as they all have families to support and cannot die there at the plant. Maejima allows them to evacuate to the seismic isolation building. Maejima begs the older operators to stay as abandoning the control room would mean abandoning the power plant and Fukushima itself. He says thousands of people are praying for them to do something to save the situation.
Kinoshita volunteers to go inside the control room. He says that he was trained around Unit 1 and can navigate it blindfolded. Yoshida allows it even though Kinoshita is in charge of Unit 5. Yoshida suggests that AO valve can be opened from outside if compressed air is pumped into it.
Kinoshita reaches the control room and offers to go as team 3 to open the AO valve. He says that he can run fast and knows the inside of Unit 1 like the back of his hand. He can navigate it effortlessly and complete his work faster than anybody else. Meajima agrees. Just as Kinoshita moves inside the reactor building, Yoshida calls Maejima and informs that he saw white smoke coming out of Unit 1 reactor building. This means that a fracture may have already occurred. He asks Maejima to stop team 3, not knowing that Kinoshita has volunteered for team 3. Maejima runs after Kinoshita.
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