Fukushima

On March 11th 2011, a tsunami struck the East coast of Japan and a fifteen metre high wave crashed over the five-metre high sea walls at the Fukushima Daiitchi Nuclear power Plant, submerging the diesel back-up generators and damaging many buildings. The frantic battle to prevent catastrophic meltdown in the face of incomplete documentation and lack of planned procedures was now in the hands of a small number of extraordinarily brave people.