Bosbrand in de Gironde, Frankrijk
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Op 11 maart 2011 trof een zware aardbeving en tsunami Japan en veroorzaakte ernstige schade aan de kerncentrale Fukushima Daiichi. De koelsystemen van meerdere reactoren faalden, wat leidde tot stijgende temperaturen en het risico op blootstelling van de splijtstofstaven. De situatie escaleerde tot de ernstigste nucleaire noodcrisis sinds Tsjernobyl.
In response, the Tokyo Fire Department launched a nuclear emergency operation to cool the No. 3 reactor, which contained highly toxic fuel. Firefighters used a high-tech unmanned fire truck to spray seawater from a height of 22 meters onto the reactor’s spent fuel pool, reducing direct radiation exposure to personnel.
The fire truck was powered by a Hytrans mobile water system, which continuously pumped large volumes of seawater. The system supplied water at a rate of 3000 liters per minute over a seven-hour period, delivering a total of more than 1,260 tons of water. Thanks to the high capacity and flexibility of the Hytrans submersible pump and hose system, critical cooling was achieved, and explosions were prevented during a time when conventional infrastructure had been destroyed.
The Hytrans units were delivered to the Tokyo Fire Department several years earlier and proved to be of vital importance in this nuclear emergency situation.
