Click here for Interactive Tool from Reuters
Click on the above tool to be taken to an interactive site map which plots events at the Fukushima Power Plant and the efforts to control the leakage that is occurring and to cool the nuclear reactors.
This has been an on-going struggle since the massive quake struck Japan last March 2011. The recovery has been fraught with multiple breakdowns of back up systems since day one. For some reason the U.S. media has under-reported aornot reported anything at all about these current events.
Again what happens in Japan does not stay in Japan - it can have an effect on the United States - Japan does not reside in a vacuum under a bubble. For your own safely keep yourselves informed.
It just goes on. I read a story about a mother in Japan and her feelings about the threat radioactivity poses to her young children. It's so sad. As for the threat this poses here, I was surprised to see radioativity readings showing West Coasters were affected. But you're right. It's all one planet. You can't contain something like this.
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