Earthquake: Fukushima And Its Effect On The Environment

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Pollution of the world's oceans is not something new, for people have been carelessly throwing their trash and other waster into the world's water supply without realizing the consequences. Apparently, people don't realize that when a plastic bag is thrown into the ocean, it's going to stay there for the 400 or so years until it deteriorates. It's the same thing but on a larger scale with Fukushima, the nuclear power plant in Japan that was destroyed by an earthquake several years ago. From that earthquake, billions of radioactive particles spread all over the globe, and it will be thousands of years before the radioactivity of them final fades. Every action, either good or bad, of us humans has an effect on the environment. When the BP

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