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Japan Nuke Plant Dumps Radioactive Water into Sea
By Jim Chang
Background Information
On March 11 a devastating earthquake and a massive tsunami hit Japan
This destroyed the power plant’s cooling systemand caused a nuclear meltdown
Workers pumped water from the oceaninto the reactors in order to keep them cool
and prevent further meltdown
Water pumped into the reactors became radioactive
The container which stored the radioactive water was filled up and could store no more
The Actual Event
Engineers pumped less radioactive water in the water storage back into the Pacific Ocean
In order to save the storage space in the container for more radioactive water
It’s better to have the less radioactive water in the ocean than the more radioactive water which must
be kept in a container
The less radioactive water being dumped into the ocean is up to 500 times the legal limit for radiation
Times 500
The government has asked Russia for a ship that is used to dispose of liquid nuclear waste as it tries to decontaminate the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex
The dumping of the less radioactive water shouldn’t be a problem because the ocean is very large
Hopefully people will learn from this disaster and prepare for any
future disaster before it’s too late