The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released dramatic new photographs showing the immense power and immediate devastation the tsunami waves caused at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11. The moment-of-impact images were taken from the fourth floor of the radioactive waste disposal building.

While it was initially thought that the waves that hit the plant weren’t as large as some of the other regions that were devastated in the disaster, the new footage clearly indicates otherwise.

Click here for the full gallery which includes images from immediately after the waters retreated.

Water floods the plant…

The plant literally being swallowed…

This image illustrates just how much water there was…

[Source: TimePhotos]