48+ Fukushima Disaster Pacific Ocean Background. To cool fuel cores at the damaged fukushima nuclear plant operator tokyo electric power company (tepco) has pumped in tens of but nine years on from japan's worst nuclear disaster, storage space is running out, and the government is still deciding what to do with the water. More than six years after a tsunami overwhelmed the fukushima nuclear power plant, japan has yet to reach consensus on what to do with a million tonnes of radioactive water, stored on site in around 900.
The disaster also fully destroyed 121,991 buildings, cost an estimate $210 billion in economic damage, and swept 5 million tons of debris out into the ocean—where japan classified the fukushima breach a level 7 on the international nuclear event scale, meaning it was a major release of radiation, with. It should come as no surprise, then, that fukushima has contaminated the entire pacific ocean in just five years. This could easily be the worst environmental.
Fukushima is set to host some olympic baseball and softball games this summer, leading to further accusations that the region is still reeling from the economic and psychological impacts of the 2011 disaster.
You may have seen that image purportedly showing the alarming spread of fukushima radiation across the pacific. Fukushima radiation appears to be causing an epidemic of dead and starving sea lions in california and the fda has refused to test for radiation. Japan's environment minister says contaminated water from the fukushima nuclear plant may have to be released into the ocean because storage space will run out in 2022. A newly developed robot for underwater investigation of a fukushima damaged reactor moves through the water at a test facility in yokosuka near tokyo, june 15, 2017.
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