"Another attempt by Japanese officials to stop the leaking of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor into the ocean failed Tuesday, the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said," Courtstey of CNN World reports on Tuesday.
Awesome.
A liquid, sillica-based filler was injected into the damaged plant early Tuedsay morning in hopes of sealing the radioactive leake before things got too out of hand at the nucelar plant. This wasn't the case. The "No. 2 reactor -- one of six at the crisis-plagued plant -- had radiation 7.5 million times the legal limits," stated an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company who owns the plant. In the words of Ray William Johnson, "GEEZUS!"
"To put this in perspective, the Pacific Ocean holds about 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they are going to release about five swimming pools full," said the chair of the radiation safety committee at Georgetown University Medical Center,Timothy Jorgensen. "So hopefully the churning of the ocean and the currents will quickly disperse this so that it gets to very dilute concentrations relatively quickly."
Hopefully. HOPEFULLY. HOPEFULLY?? not good enough kid.
With the delicate balance of the ocean's ecosystems in line, I'm not too sure if the owners of the Fukushima plant were well aware of the actrocitiets that nuclear radiation could have on the deliacte ecosystem balance of the Pacific ocean. With the harmful effects of radiation evident among humans, wouldn't there be a same effect on the ocean life; more even, since the radiation is directly in the waters they live?
It seems that humans will not be the only organisms that will feel the effects of Japan's earthquake for many many years to come.
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