Fukushima Water in Ocean – level 2
21-10-2020 07:00
In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, and they destroyed the Fukushima nuclear plant. There was a lot of wastewater in the plant, and the water was very dangerous.
Workers used some of the water to cool the plant after the disaster. But there was dangerous rainwater and groundwater, too, which the workers collected in big tanks. The problem was that there was too much water, and the water is dangerous for the workers.
The Japanese government plans to slowly dump the water into the sea. Scientists thought of other possibilities, but this one seems to be the safest. Fishermen in the area are not happy with the government’s plan. They worry that people will stop buying fish from them.
Difficult words: nuclear plant (a factory that breaks very small things called atoms to make power), wastewater (dirty water from homes and factories), dump (to get rid of something that you do not want anymore).
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