Japan Nuke Plant Dumps Radioactive Water into Sea

By Jim Chang

Background Information

On March 11 a devastating earthquake and a massive tsunami hit Japan

This destroyed the power plant’s cooling systemand caused a nuclear meltdown

Workers pumped water from the oceaninto the reactors in order to keep them cool

and prevent further meltdown

Water pumped into the reactors became radioactive

The container which stored the radioactive water was filled up and could store no more

The Actual Event

Engineers pumped less radioactive water in the water storage back into the Pacific Ocean

In order to save the storage space in the container for more radioactive water

It’s better to have the less radioactive water in the ocean than the more radioactive water which must

be kept in a container

The less radioactive water being dumped into the ocean is up to 500 times the legal limit for radiation

Times 500

The government has asked Russia for a ship that is used to dispose of liquid nuclear waste as it tries to decontaminate the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex

The dumping of the less radioactive water shouldn’t be a problem because the ocean is very large

Hopefully people will learn from this disaster and prepare for any

future disaster before it’s too late