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    On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing a tsunami that overwhelmed the plant's sea walls. The flooding knocked out power to the plant's cooling systems, resulting in nuclear meltdowns in three reactors and hydrogen explosions that damaged the buildings. Radioactive materials were released, forcing widespread evacuations. The accident revealed deficiencies in the plant's design and regulatory oversight that failed to protect safety equipment from flooding, as well as issues with emergency response communications and protocols during the crisis. Lessons from Fukushima included strengthening nuclear plant systems to enable ad hoc responses to severe accidents and improving offsite emergency response capabilities.

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    On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing a tsunami that overwhelmed the plant's sea walls. The flooding knocked out power to the plant's cooling systems, resulting in nuclear meltdowns in three reactors and hydrogen explosions that damaged the buildings. Radioactive materials were released, forcing widespread evacuations. The accident revealed deficiencies in the plant's design and regulatory oversight that failed to protect safety equipment from flooding, as well as issues with emergency response communications and protocols during the crisis. Lessons from Fukushima included strengthening nuclear plant systems to enable ad hoc responses to severe accidents and improving offsite emergency response capabilities.

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    On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing a tsunami that overwhelmed the plant's sea walls. The flooding knocked out power to the plant's cooling systems, resulting in nuclear meltdowns in three reactors and hydrogen explosions that damaged the buildings. Radioactive materials were released, forcing widespread evacuations. The accident revealed deficiencies in the plant's design and regulatory oversight that failed to protect safety equipment from flooding, as well as issues with emergency response communications and protocols during the crisis. Lessons from Fukushima included strengthening nuclear plant systems to enable ad hoc responses to severe accidents and improving offsite emergency response capabilities.

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    On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing a tsunami that overwhelmed the plant's sea walls. The flooding knocked out power to the plant's cooling systems, resulting in nuclear meltdowns in three reactors and hydrogen explosions that damaged the buildings. Radioactive materials were released, forcing widespread evacuations. The accident revealed deficiencies in the plant's design and regulatory oversight that failed to protect safety equipment from flooding, as well as issues with emergency response communications and protocols during the crisis. Lessons from Fukushima included strengthening nuclear plant systems to enable ad hoc responses to severe accidents and improving offsite emergency response capabilities.

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    FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR

    ACCIDENT
    11 March 2011

    SRI GHANESH MUNIANDY

    METE221011
    • The Fukushima Daiichi
    Nuclear Power Plant is in the
    town of Okuma sits on the
    country's east coast,
    • about 220km (137 miles)
    north-east of the capital
    Tokyo.
    • On 11 March 2011 at 14:46
    local time (05:46 GMT) the
    earthquake - known as the
    Great East Japan Earthquake,
    or the 2011 Tohoku
    earthquake - struck east of
    the city of Sendai, 97km north
    of the plant.
    What happened
    at Fukushima?
    • Systems at the nuclear plant detected the earthquake and
    automatically shut down the nuclear reactors. Emergency diesel
    generators turned on to keep coolant pumping around the cores,
    which remain incredibly hot even after reactions stop.
    • But soon after a wave over 14 metres (46ft) high hit Fukushima.
    The water overwhelmed the defensive sea wall, flooding the plant
    and knocking out the emergency generators.
    • Workers rushed to restore power, but in the days that followed
    the nuclear fuel in three of the reactors overheated and partly
    melted the cores - something known as a nuclear meltdown.
    • The plant also suffered a number of chemical explosions which
    badly damaged the buildings. Radioactive material began leaking
    into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean, prompting the
    evacuations and an ever-widening exclusion zone.
    CAUSES OF THE FUKUSHIMA
    ACCIDENT
    Failure of the plant owner (Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the principal regulator
    (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) to protect critical safety equipment at the plant from
    flooding in spite of mounting evidence that the plant's current design basis for tsunamis was
    inadequate.

    The loss of nearly all onsite AC and DC power at the plant—with the consequent loss of real-
    time information for monitoring critical thermodynamic parameters in reactors,
    containments, and spent fuel pools and for sensing and actuating critical valves and
    equipment—greatly narrowed options for responding to the accident.

    The lack of clarity of roles and responsibilities within the onsite emergency response center
    and between the onsite and headquarters emergency response centers may have contributed
    to response delays.

    Multiunit interactions complicated the accident response. Unit operators competed for
    physical resources and the attention and services of staff in the onsite emergency response
    center.

    Failures to transmit information and instructions in an accurate and timely manner hindered
    responses to the accident. These failures resulted partly from the loss of communications
    systems and the challenging operating environments throughout the plant.
    LESSONS LEARNED

    Improve nuclear
    plant systems, Strengthen
    resources, and capabilities for
    training to enable assessing risks from
    effective ad hoc beyond-design-basis
    responses to severe events.
    accidents.

    Examine offsite Strengthen


    emergency response capabilities for
    capabilities and make assessing risks from
    necessary beyond-design-basis
    improvements. events.

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