TEPCO documents reveal chaos at Fukushima nuke plant after quake, tsunami

If there is one word to describe events at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in the immediate aftermath of the March 11 quake and tsunami -- with cooling systems failing and the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl brewing in its reactors -- it would be "chaos."

That is the picture painted by documents released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on May 16 describing the situation at the plant in the hours after tsunami slammed into the coastal facility. Coming more than two months after the disaster, the TEPCO data will soon be dissected by a government committee set up to analyze the causes of the nuclear crisis and the actions taken by both the government and TEPCO to contain it.

"The power-source trucks (to supply the reactors with outside power) are stuck in traffic!"

"We've given up on venting operations (to lower reactor vessel pressure). The radiation is just too high."

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