
I wonder how all that radiation is going to affect the marine life in the area. Some of those creatures are really fragile and have been around for billions of years.
This is a great example of how our growth as a species must reach beyond this planet. Before to long we will end up destroying this planet at this rate.
The Japanese nuclear facility probably killed a lot of the surrounding sea life long before the disaster did. As for reaching beyond the planet... That's probably why they want to get to Mars so they can destroy there too. Despite all this nuclear power will be here to stay for a long time.
Spent Fuel Rods Drive Growing Fear Over Plant in Japan:
What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. Ref. Source 6
Results aside and long before Fukishia and the earthquake, I learned of Japan acquiring nuclear power stations, and I remember the only thing went into my mind was a not so old picture of the front page of a newspaper showing an unusually large picture of Tokyo after a quake the next morning. This was some 20 or so years back.
My only thought on it has ever been they should not have nuclear power because they cannot and only because of earth quakes because they are on the fault line and always having disasters from quakes.
Fukushima fish carrying 258 times the 'safe' level of radiation:
A pair of fish captured near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have shown to be carrying record levels of radiation. The pair of greenlings are contaminated with 258 times the level government deems safe for consumption Ref. Source 9
Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff
Local Japanese News In English
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it. (AP)
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Japanese Nuclear Plant May Have Been Leaking for Two Years:
In unusually candid comments, Shunichi Tanaka, the head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, also said that neither his staff nor the plant's operator knew exactly where the leaks were coming from, or how to stop them. Ref. Source 6