Assessing Fukushima's Impact on the Pacific Ocean

Since a massive earthquake struck Japan on March 11, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power planet has been under a state of emergency, given the amount of damage it suffered. That damage led directly to the release of radioactive particles in the Pacific Ocean, and experts now analyze the consequences.

From the get-go, their work was made very difficult by the fact that authorities in Japan constantly underestimated the severity of the disaster, and showed themselves overly-optimistic that everything will be brought under control soon.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

0 comments:

Post a Comment