The terrible tragedy in Japan was the massive earthquakes and tsunamis that ensued. Of course, aside from the horrible loss of life and property sustained by Japan, there is an even worse, lasting impact on Japan: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Now, there’s radiation being found in the water filling trenches around the nuclear plant.The trenches were built to stop potentially contaminated water from spreading out from the plants. These trenches have collected the water, but its contamination is slowing down the clean-up efforts of relief workers.
According to James Acton, an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment, the environmental damage stemming from the tragedy in Japan is on par with the massive British Petroleum oil spill. Hopefully, it won’t get any worse than that.
