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    Arrival of Tsunami

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    The tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was 13-14 meters high, overwhelming the plant's 10 meter seawall. The waves flooded the basements of the turbine buildings around 15:41, disabling the emergency diesel generators and cutting power to the cooling systems. Batteries provided power for around 8 hours but failed when additional mobile generators arrived almost 6 hours after the tsunami. The loss of cooling systems to the reactor cores led to meltdowns in reactors 1, 2 and 3.

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    The tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was 13-14 meters high, overwhelming the plant's 10 meter seawall. The waves flooded the basements of the turbine buildings around 15:41, disabling the emergency diesel generators and cutting power to the cooling systems. Batteries provided power for around 8 hours but failed when additional mobile generators arrived almost 6 hours after the tsunami. The loss of cooling systems to the reactor cores led to meltdowns in reactors 1, 2 and 3.

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    The tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was 13-14 meters high, overwhelming the plant's 10 meter seawall. The waves flooded the basements of the turbine buildings around 15:41, disabling the emergency diesel generators and cutting power to the cooling systems. Batteries provided power for around 8 hours but failed when additional mobile generators arrived almost 6 hours after the tsunami. The loss of cooling systems to the reactor cores led to meltdowns in reactors 1, 2 and 3.

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    The tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was 13-14 meters high, overwhelming the plant's 10 meter seawall. The waves flooded the basements of the turbine buildings around 15:41, disabling the emergency diesel generators and cutting power to the cooling systems. Batteries provided power for around 8 hours but failed when additional mobile generators arrived almost 6 hours after the tsunami. The loss of cooling systems to the reactor cores led to meltdowns in reactors 1, 2 and 3.

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    Arrival of tsunami[edit]

    The height of the tsunami that struck the station approximately 50 minutes after the earthquake.
    A: Power station buildings
    B: Peak height of tsunami
    C: Ground level of site
    D: Average sea level
    E: Seawall to block waves

    The largest tsunami wave was 13–14 m (43–46 feet) high and hit approximately 50 minutes after the
    initial earthquake, overwhelming the plant's seawall, which was 10 m (33 ft) high.[9] The moment of
    impact was recorded by a camera. [34]

    Disabling of emergency generators[edit]


    The waves overtopped the plant's 5.7 m (19 ft) seawall,[35][36][37] flooding the basements of the power
    plant's turbine buildings and disabling the emergency diesel generators [38][39][40] at approximately 15:41.
    [32][41]
     TEPCO then notified authorities of a "first-level emergency". [42] The switching stations that
    provided power from the three backup generators located higher on the hillside failed when the
    building that housed them flooded.[43] Power for the plant's control systems switched to batteries
    designed to provide power for about eight hours. [44] Further batteries and mobile generators were
    dispatched to the site, but were delayed by poor road conditions; the first arrived at 21:00 11 March,
    [33][45]
     almost six hours after the tsunami struck. The flooded diesel generators failed soon afterwards,
    resulting in a loss of power to the critical coolant water pumps. These pumps were needed to
    continuously circulate coolant water through the reactor cores for several days to keep the fuel
    rods from overheating, as the rods continued to generate decay heat after fission had ceased. Core
    cooling was now reliant on secondary emergency pumps run by back-up electrical batteries, but
    these ran out of power on 12 March, one day after the tsunami. [46] The water pumps stopped and
    the reactors began to overheat. The lack of cooling water eventually led to meltdowns in Reactors 1,
    2, and 3.
    Unsuccessful attempts were made to connect portable generating equipment to power water pumps.
    The failure was attributed to flooding at the connection point in the Turbine Hall basement and the
    absence of suitable cables.[39] TEPCO switched its efforts to installing new lines from the grid. [47] One
    generator at unit 6 resumed operation on 17 March, while external power returned to units 5 and 6
    only on 20 March.[48]

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