Eight Years On, Contaminated Water Piles Up and Threatens Fukushima Cleanup
Fukushima's cleanup is threatened by the need to store 1 million tons of contaminated water for years.
Eight years after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, the massive cleanup effort faces a significant new obstacle: approximately 1 million tons of contaminated water that must be stored at the plant, possibly for years. This growing volume of radioactive water continues to accumulate and could undermine progress on the long-term decontamination work, according to a Reuters report. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/healthNews/~3/YBJObsU3wb0/eight-years-on-water-woes-threaten-fukushima-cleanup-idUSKCN1QP0MA
VITALIS: For ordinary people living nearby, this means the disaster's effects are still lingering and could affect their environment and sense of safety for many more years, showing how nuclear accidents create problems that don't just disappear.
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