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Event: Tsunami planning
In 2008, when the risk of tsunami was again considered, an expected tsunami exceeding 15 meters was projected for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) officials dismissed the figure as hypothetical. A second study in 2008 using different modeling suggested wave heights of nine metres, but again TEPCO officials disregarded the findings.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3760422.html "Can Japan do better than Chernobyl?"
March 11, 2011
Event: Tsunami
Time 3:27-3:41 PM Tsunami attacks the plant
Maximum design basis was water level of 5.7m. The plant was planned to be way out of harms way at 10m (30 ft) perched up on a hill, but the water reached up to 14-15m, nearly to the top of the 1st floor. Units 5 and 6 were up 13m so they were partially threatened as well.
Time: 3:27 PM At 3:27 p.m. the first tsunami wave surged into the man-made harbor protecting Fukushima Dai-ichi, rushing past a tidal gauge that measured a water height of 4 meters above normal.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushima/2
Time: 3:35 PM another set of much higher waves rolled in and obliterated the gauge. The water rushed over the seawalls and swept toward the plant. It smashed into the seawater pumps used in the heat-removal systems, then burst open the large doors on the turbine buildings and submerged power panels that controlled the operation of pumps, valves, and other equipment. Weeks later, TEPCO employees would measure the water stains on the buildings and estimate the monstrous tsunami's height at
14 meters. http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushima/2
3:43
Photo shows water coming up behind Daini plant
http://www.the9billion.com/2011/04/10/moment-japan-tsunami-hit-fukushima-nuclear-plant/
New video footage has been released by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) of the moment the devastating Japan tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The brief video shows the massive wave crashing over the Fukushima Daiichi power plant’s seawall and swamping the site. The sea spray from the giant wave can be seen rising well above the buildings housing the nuclear reactors.
Image: TEPCO
Huge oil storage tank near the shore is washed up between buildings blocking the main driveway.
The sides of a tank near the shore are crushed inwards
A boat is overturned not far from the oil tank , visible from helicopter overflight and google earth, but nobody notices it except Asian Week.
Cars and trucks are floated up and upturned all over the site.
Tepco employee shoots series of photos showing water at south stack almost reaching roof of building as cars float up and back down against equipment as water receeds
Another employee catches video of wave crashing against turbine building - water is thrown high above the reactor and turbine building roof lines.
Side of building south of turbine 4 is smashed in
Event: Two workers drown in turbine building " They were reunited at the evacuation center with a woman TEPCO employee, who burst into tears when she saw the couple. he told them a senior at work, who worked at the Fukushima plant, had been swept away by the tsunami. The employee went to the turbine building to check on damage when the tsunami hit. The woman extended her hand and shouted, "Get up here now." However, the senior employee did not make it. link They would be declared missing, but the two workers would later be found drowned in the basement of another turbine room.
SEAWATER IS GUSHING IN!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111204a1.html
At a hearing into the March disaster, a chief operator described how he realised disaster had hit when lights flickered and went out, including those on the control panels, according to an interim report released Friday "I came to realise a tsunami had hit the site as one of the workers rushed into the room, shouting 'Sea water is gushing in!''', the unnamed chief operator was quoted as saying.
As this NEI report diagram shows, the water went to the very top of the first floor of the reactor. Not reported, but obvious from this diagram is that the disaster would have been even worse had they gone 1 floor higher and flooded the 2nd floor control room, drowning the skilled operators and managers in control. The emergency diesel generators in green and switching gear rooms in yellow were on basement levels. The generators and seaside intake structures were all completely submerged.
The reactor building is on the left, turbine buildings on the right.
here is the complete report (pdf, 2.2 MB, 98 pages): www.nei.org
This appears to be the first report that IC were not operable, most reports are that they were shut down manually, then could not be restarted because of lack of power.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a5711ed0-2fc4-11e1-8ad0-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1hgjIgK6G
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Event: Tsunami planning
In 2008, when the risk of tsunami was again considered, an expected tsunami exceeding 15 meters was projected for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) officials dismissed the figure as hypothetical. A second study in 2008 using different modeling suggested wave heights of nine metres, but again TEPCO officials disregarded the findings.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3760422.html "Can Japan do better than Chernobyl?"
March 11, 2011
Event: Tsunami
Time 3:27-3:41 PM Tsunami attacks the plant
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| Tepco tsunami diagram for Daiichi plant |
Time: 3:27 PM At 3:27 p.m. the first tsunami wave surged into the man-made harbor protecting Fukushima Dai-ichi, rushing past a tidal gauge that measured a water height of 4 meters above normal.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushima/2
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| Just before waves hit the seawall |
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| Waves wash away massive concrete breakwater blocks like tofu. Tanks soon to be inundated. |
Time: 3:35 PM another set of much higher waves rolled in and obliterated the gauge. The water rushed over the seawalls and swept toward the plant. It smashed into the seawater pumps used in the heat-removal systems, then burst open the large doors on the turbine buildings and submerged power panels that controlled the operation of pumps, valves, and other equipment. Weeks later, TEPCO employees would measure the water stains on the buildings and estimate the monstrous tsunami's height at
14 meters. http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushima/2
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| Swmping intakes for 5 and 6 |
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| Cars washed away near tank |
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| Large tank crushed side next to swamped cars |
3:43
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| Water upends truck and nearly reaches roof of building south of reactor 4 |
Photo shows water coming up behind Daini plant
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| Aftermath upended SUV near south stack |
by on 04/10/2011 This photo shows that when the waves crashed against the turbine buildings, water splashed hundreds of feet into the air, about halfway the height of the stacks, much higher than the roofs of the 5 story high reactor buildings which are 30 ft in the air to start.
New video footage has been released by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) of the moment the devastating Japan tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The brief video shows the massive wave crashing over the Fukushima Daiichi power plant’s seawall and swamping the site. The sea spray from the giant wave can be seen rising well above the buildings housing the nuclear reactors.
Image: TEPCO
Huge oil storage tank near the shore is washed up between buildings blocking the main driveway.
The sides of a tank near the shore are crushed inwards
A boat is overturned not far from the oil tank , visible from helicopter overflight and google earth, but nobody notices it except Asian Week.
Cars and trucks are floated up and upturned all over the site.
Tepco employee shoots series of photos showing water at south stack almost reaching roof of building as cars float up and back down against equipment as water receeds
Another employee catches video of wave crashing against turbine building - water is thrown high above the reactor and turbine building roof lines.
Side of building south of turbine 4 is smashed in
Event: Two workers drown in turbine building " They were reunited at the evacuation center with a woman TEPCO employee, who burst into tears when she saw the couple. he told them a senior at work, who worked at the Fukushima plant, had been swept away by the tsunami. The employee went to the turbine building to check on damage when the tsunami hit. The woman extended her hand and shouted, "Get up here now." However, the senior employee did not make it. link They would be declared missing, but the two workers would later be found drowned in the basement of another turbine room.
SEAWATER IS GUSHING IN!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111204a1.html
At a hearing into the March disaster, a chief operator described how he realised disaster had hit when lights flickered and went out, including those on the control panels, according to an interim report released Friday "I came to realise a tsunami had hit the site as one of the workers rushed into the room, shouting 'Sea water is gushing in!''', the unnamed chief operator was quoted as saying.
As this NEI report diagram shows, the water went to the very top of the first floor of the reactor. Not reported, but obvious from this diagram is that the disaster would have been even worse had they gone 1 floor higher and flooded the 2nd floor control room, drowning the skilled operators and managers in control. The emergency diesel generators in green and switching gear rooms in yellow were on basement levels. The generators and seaside intake structures were all completely submerged.
The reactor building is on the left, turbine buildings on the right.
here is the complete report (pdf, 2.2 MB, 98 pages): www.nei.org
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| Upturned trucks in November months after disaster |
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| Worker points to sea debris in electrical room |
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| Helicopter shot of plant after tsunami hit |
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Before (left) After (right) Note tank at lower right pad was pushed up street between buildings |
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| Aftermath shows water above 1st floor 30 ft from sea level. |
This appears to be the first report that IC were not operable, most reports are that they were shut down manually, then could not be restarted because of lack of power.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a5711ed0-2fc4-11e1-8ad0-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1hgjIgK6G
the isolation condensers at reactor unit 1 lost their functionality after the tsunami struck, making it necessary to provide alternative water injection to cool the reactor core.
The committee states that, “misjudgment of the operational situation of the IC caused (a) delay in alternative water injection and primary containment vessel (PCV) venting. As a result, an earlier opportunity for core cooling was missed”.
Tepco’s off-site emergency response headquarters for example, was housed in a building that “was not designed to withstand elevated radiation levels, although it was intended for use in nuclear emergencies”, and did not even have air cleaning filters, it says.
“Tepco did not take precautionary measures in anticipation that a severe accident could be caused by tsunami such as the one (that hit Fukushima Daiichi) … Neither did the regulatory authorities,” the committee states in its report.
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