@splitshockvirus The diesel generators ran pretty well until the basement they were in were flooded by the tsunami and I don't think they ordered the flood-tolerant ones.

Based off memory there was one generator on slightly higher ground, but generators aren't usually rated for 100% load, 24/7, so it soon failed.

The generator room flooding was foreseen in the past as someone noticed that it flooded after heavy rains - but all that was done was the installation of doors to stop rainwater ingress.

The whole incident would have been avoided if they built it on top of the cliff as the design called for, or if they looked at the tsunami record and constructed the sea wall high enough.


A few kilometers up the coast there is another reactor, except someone looked up the tsunami record and insisted that the wall be built high enough despite the slightly higher price and nothing happened to that one.