High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed Strontium-90 was present at 30 times the legal rate. The radioactive isotope tritium has also been detected at elevated levels. The plant, crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has recently seen a series of water leaks and power failures. The tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, which melted down. Water is now being pumped in to the reactors to cool them but this has left Tepco with the problem of how to safely store the contaminated water.
Tests showed that levels of strontium in groundwater at the Fukushima plant had increased 100 times since the end of last year and the levels of radioactive isotope tritium too.
These chemicals can make a lot of problems for people´s health. With this news we can see that nuclear plants aren’t a good idea. The nuclear plants have big levels of radioactivity and this is is the worst thing for our body, because it affects genetic material and it kills you slowly. So we have to try to create power in other ways. If we do it we won’t put our health and the earth in risk. So if we want we can do it. It’s only our decision to change the world. We could get rid of all nuclear plants for the good of humanity and the future generations.
Water leaks –fuites d’aigua
Pump- bombejar
Melted down- fos
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