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Video Shows Tsunami Crashing Into Fukushima Nuclear Site
- Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:51am by
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Tokyo (CNN) — A brief video clip released Saturday captures the massive tsunami that crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, showing the wall of water that slammed into the facility and created an ongoing crisis.
The video shows the giant wave generated by the historic March 11 earthquake crashing over the plant’s seawall and engulfing the facility, with one sheet of spray rising higher than the buildings that house the plant’s six reactors. Tokyo Electric Power, the plant’s owner, told reporters the wall of water was likely 14 to 15 meters (45 to 48 feet) higher than normal sea levels — easily overwhelming the plant’s 5-meter seawall.
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MUDFLAPS
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:05amI guess the wave is in that video somewhere but Ill be darned if I can see it.
Report Post »DocH
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:15pmInitially wave was 33 fr. Gets bigger every day just like a fish story.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:59pmLousy video.. I don’t see anything.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:50pmThey put that plant in the worst possible location for a tsunami. It is directly on the coast, in an alcove that focuses the wave power. At least if it were on the point, the waves could dissipate around the sides.
Report Post »BibleBrain
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:55am@Wyoming Yeah lets put all of them in Wyoming!! I’d question the system that produced so many reactors where three tectonic plates are smashing together. Boy those reactors were chuggin away even after the one in SE Asia. I sense some greed. Also, has anyone asked where we’re gonna end up dumping all the toxic batteries in these electric cars they want us to drive?
Report Post »wyoming33
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:37pmHeck ya, build them in Wyoming. Talk about creating jobs…..
Report Post »ontheair
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:22amSorry I simply just can’t from this edited video see a wave the size of a five story building, I do see a slash, but thats it!
Report Post »JJCon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:45amA splash that somehow floats in the air.
I don’t think this video shows what is being claimed it does.
Report Post »wyoming33
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:36amSHAYPACKRIT. As someone who works in a nuclear power plant most peoples opinions of this disaster are just plain annoying……. that being said: Good point, if you need a tsunami wall maybe you should back it up a bit (the guys at work will chuckle at you common sense point). The only consideration I would point out is that most people don’t want these things anywhere near anything because they are terrified of something like this happening…… got to put them somewhere. The lesson we are learning is that we will have to build our plants tougher then we ever thought would be required. One good thing from this, all of us in this field are taking notes and learning so that it doesn’t happen again.
Report Post »parlayer
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:56amInteresting, but the one of that wall of MUD going thru town was ???? better???
Report Post »ShayPackrit
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:40amIf you look at this site on google earth, it would amaze you that anybody would put a nuclear power station that close to the sea.
The first clue for the builders: they built a tsunami wall around the plant. If you have to build a tsunami wall, you are too close to the water!
Hindsight, of course, is 20/20, but give me a break. Something that dangerous should never be that close to the sea (especially in the ring of fire)
LAT: 37°25′15.16″N
Report Post »LONG: 141° 2′1.89″E
bbr48
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:15amI didn’t see 48 feet…I saw a huge splash up…the video wasn’t that good.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:43am@bbr48–By not seeing it and knowing the destruction that occurred your complaint is in the quality of the video?.When you drive do you stop at every hill just to make sure the workers continued on with making the road?.(after all you can’t see the road ahead) I mean really!
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:02amI agree with BBR48!
Report Post »neomom
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:01pmThe vid was taken with a cell phone by a very shaken worker from the US that was there for the outage work on Unit 4. Sorry it doesn’t have a enough cinematic quality for you.
Report Post »Conservophiliac
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:00amOuch!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:09amMakes one a “little” nervous ..living near a coast … how many miles did it come in? … I could be toast!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:59amYou can see it .. looks like a geyser.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:56amWhy don‘t we see riot’s in Japan ? ? ? Ya we know why
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:03amThey don’t have the “diversity” we do here .. at one time people wanted to be “American” .. now everything is division … hyphenated .
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:37amBefore we moved to America, I would hear stories of how great America is, the first TV show I saw from America was “I Dream of Jeannie”
Report Post »That was 40 years ago, we first moved to upstate New York, it was very nice, safe and the people very polite.
A year later, do to high home cost’s we moved to Jackson Heights Queens, WOW ! I was 8 years old and it was like I just entered hell, what a toilet of diversity.
NYC in 1978 had a city wide blackout, I was in the middle of it, and it was shocking what THOSE people did in the streets, if I write what I saw then my comment will get removed, one of those too much truth things.
Robert-CA
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:41amThis is what the elderly farmer said to reporters :
“You are the first people I have spoken to” since the earthquake and tsunami.
“Do you have any food?” he asked. “I will pay you.”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:47amUpstate New York was lovely in the 1970′s (the first and only time I was there) … I meet people all the time from New York state (I live in FL) and if they are from “upstate” they always say upstate New York .. not just New York … I suspect we know why don’t we!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:50am@ROBERT
And that is why I sent in a donation to the Japanese Red Cross .. you know they won’t waste it or steal it .. like other places. God bless his heart !
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:01amI wrote that about the 1978 blackout, cause it was my first time in such a very dangerous place, that night rape and robbery was the norm, mayor Koch, almost called out the national guard, that’s how bad things got, just because the lights went out, NYC turned into a ZOO !
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:06amI think that was the same blackout that took out the whole east coast including into Canada ..much of my family lived in Toronto and they were fine … a different time to be certain .. but nothing like New York .. that must have been VERY scary.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:20amYeah looking back on it, I think the power station was in Canada.
Report Post »But from that day on, I knew as some as I’m done with H.S. then I’m leaving the “beauty of diversity”
A year after I left NYC, I think it was 1983, that Benard Getz shot THOSE three or four kids in the subway, I loved it, all of NYC LOVED IT, someone finally said enough is enough with this living in fear !
GO GETZ GO GETZ !!!
MikeRossTky
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 5:07amLack of diversity in the population may explain a bit, but then where there is diversity, such as factory towns where you see workers from Brazil and other parts of the world, you still do not see riots.
The main driving factor is that you do not have people “dependent” on the government. Only the old are dependent. Those who are in the age group where they can work are able to receive only minimal government assistance.
People will rather work and live within their means then obtain government help.
One other factor is the “ethics” class taught during grade school. Right and Wrong. Living as a group to benefit of each other, such as giving up your seat in a bus or train to the elderly is drilled in.
I was born and raised in Japan and went to the public school system. In recent years, the education system has faltered. There is a push to bring it back to what it used to be. We may have a generation that may riot as a result. Believe it or not, this is the result of the teachers union not willing to teach to high standards of the past…
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:52amTo: Mikerosstky
When you wrote “ethics” it is the key word, having that leads to respect and consideration for others.
25 years ago I was at a spa in L.A. and a 30 year old man was washing a 80+ year old man, both looked Japanese, the older man was probably his grandfather, I never forgot that, it’s something in the west that you would never see, now in the west we just throw out older family members to a nursing home, like we do with old shoe’s.
I saw old film‘s from the 1950’s that talked about ethics to young girls in America, the black and white films told the girls how to act when, one day they get married, things like “when your husband comes home from work don‘t talk about your problem’s, ask him if he wants something to eat, give him the newspaper”
I miss the good old days my friend I hoped they never end . . .
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:14amThey didn’t riot in KATRINA.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:40am@searching
Does looting count?
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:28amThere was no Great Society in Japan, which explains why the Japanese still have the societal norms of honor and decency (which why they aren’t rioting, looting, and pillaging).
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:00pm@SEARCHING
You are kidding right? Talk about dependent on government people .. they were probably waiting for someone to come and do it for them. They had plenty of looting and distruction of any property they could find .. .it was not “peaceful” but any stretch of the imagination.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:39pmTo: SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
I hope what you wrote was sarcasm, cause if not then you really do need to find the truth.
Report Post »Katrina was worse then a riot, in a riot at least at some point the police show up to brake up the problem, in Katrina the police became part of the problem, many of the police joined in on the looting, stealing cars, trucks, boats, they took the best not used cars but stuff from the showroom, then drove the car up north, like no one would find out.
On TV I saw this one woman carrying one of those big money vacuums “Dyson” that she just took, the funny part of that she was carrying it over her head the water was waist high, what was she going to do with that vacuum in a flooded house? You can’t make this stuff up, it’s so ridiculous.
A few days after the strom Jessie Jackson got on a bridge, one of the few places not flooded and said to a large group of you know what, that the place “looked like the hull of a slave ship” then kept on blaming Bush for this problem, interseting he didn’t blame the black mayor or the female governor.
Brasil2520
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:52pmTo CATB – 28_ID
Since I grew up with blacks and Hispanic’s it seems to me that THOSE people are self righteous, indignant and have a sense of entitlement, it’s all about them, “Me Me Me, Feed Me, Give Me, but I take from you”, thinking, in Japan the mentality is “what can I do to help you”
Report Post »Night and day, folks, night and day !
CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:54amWow … 46 to 48 FT …! 3 plus times the height of the seawall.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:17amWow indeed.
At the least now I have a more clearer understanding of how so much damage got inflicted upon the support and power systems around the reactors. Between the main quake and the tsunami, there could have been very little anyone could do to stop the inevitable.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:34amWe humans have the biggest egos. We all need to humble ourselves.
Report Post »The earth burps or farts and it kills thousands of people while destroying anything in it’s path.
Surprised the pseudo libs haven‘t made a giant herbal remedy to drop down into a volcano to treat it’s acid reflux.
CatB
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:53am@ANAPPEALTOGOD
Like they think that we are so powerful … that we can change the temperature of the Earth . .. .
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:46amDam, wish the camera man would have done a little bit of a better job, but hey, you try being a steady hand with a tsunami coming at you. Mother earth truly is powerful, and we are not.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:36am@AnAppealToGod–Wow indeed. How true your statement is.“If my people would humble themselves” If it’s in the Bible, we better listen.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:28amLousy vid. Why was it built so near the ocean.
Report Post »neomom
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:59pmIt was built next to the coast because they need an “ultimate heatsink” – a large body of water for emergency cooling needs. You will always find these plants next to large bodies of water – lakes, rivers, oceans. In Illinois, they built a lake for one.
From what we know, the design of the plant seawall was based on some historic research of height of tsunamis in the area. TEPCO made those decisons in conjunction with the Japanese government.
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:36pm@decendentof56
Because proximity to the ocena would allow the workers to flood the reactor with salt water in the event of a potential failure (as they did by the way) the large amount of salt water would’ve helped the reactor, but the damage to the systems kind of made that difficult.
So, in reality, building a reactor near the sea was a GOOD idea. It‘s just that getting hit by a large tsunami kind of KILLED two of the safety measures that would’ve allowed them to utilize that water for awhile. Keep in mind the reactor itself wasn’t breached, so it‘s containment was built to spec even though it was ’not’ designed to handle a 40+ foot wave.
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