Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Tokyo, Japan believe that they have been able to plug one of the reactors stopping the leakage of radioactive iodine into the Pacific Ocean. The leakage was at one point 7.5 million times the legal limit, but in the turn of 24 hours it drastically dropped down to 280,000 times above the legal limit. A spokesperson for the nuclear plant stated that there is relief that there was success in plugging the receptor, but there is a fear that containing this radioactive water will only lead to leakage somewhere else. The workers at the nuclear plant are concerned that there is a chance of having a possible hydrogen explosion due to overheating because the tsunami that followed after the earthquake had knocked out the cooling systems for the receptors. Also if they do not find a way to manage the liquid radioactive waste, then it will continue recycling itself by dumping into the ocean which has been upsetting fishermen from neighboring countries. Although they are working to contain this issue, because there are still significant amounts of radioactive material being found, it is indicating that there may also be other leaks with other issues to handle.
Heather Krizka
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