Fukushima pollution

In March, 11, 2011, devastating tsunami and earthquake hits Japan. Earth quake was magnitude of 9 and it was the most devastating earth quakes that have recorded to hit Japan in history. Still this day, Japan is recovering from the damage that was brought. But tsunami and earth quake damaged some more than just land and building. Fukushima nuclear reactor was damaged. When the nuclear power plant was damaged, the cool down pump was not functioning completely and caused power plant to have hydrogen explosion. With that explosion, 10km radius of area was contaminated with radiation. But after all these years, people might have forgotten already but this contamination is still progressing. Soon, if they don’t stop the radiation leak, an entire pacific ocean could be contaminated with radiation.
Radiation is a form of electromagnetic waves that can pass though objects. But when human body is exposed to large amount of radiation, it could cause “Nausea and vomiting often begin within hours of exposure, followed by diarrhea, headaches and fever.”(BBC news, 2013). The larger your radiation dose, the higher your chance of developing those symptoms. In Fukushima nuclear plant’s leaking tank, “there is a radiation high enough to prove lethal within four hour of exposure. Radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisiverts an hour” (BBC news, 2013). 11,000 People who live in 20km area in rector had to be evacuated immediately after the melt down. Week later, voluntary evacuation was announced for people who lived near 20-30km. Six weeks after; voluntary evacuation zone was extended to 50-60km. Now area near the rector became no man’s zone. Some people still cannot go back to their own home and neighborhood because amount of...

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...ter, they should fix the crack on the tank by making the concrete piece that could cover the cracks and place it on top of the crack since if the water is always flowing, it is impossible to fill the crack with raw concrete. Also, they should make a radiation resistant 10km radius of concrete wall around the shore of Fukushima to prevent the further pollution to the Pacific Ocean. This is very important because by shutting the way of spreading through ocean means that it does not spread through the whole ocean and affect other country such as Hawaii or Australia.
Those solutions are not the easy thing to do but to maintain such a big scale business and when the disaster occurs that involves many people, they should take responsibilities of their own business. And I hope that Fukushima will be able to stand back up from the ashes and mess they made and rise again.