Japans earthquakes and tsunamis were devastating to the area in which it was in. Homes were torn down, buildings distorted, lives flipped upside down. Then on top of it all they have to worry about a nuclear power plant destroying everything. Now after being in this colloquium class for this semester I have began to look at things differently. So instead of looking at all the physical damages I began to look at the damages that no one sees and is not displayed. What has this Nuclear leak done to the food, animals, or people. Nuclear waste is very toxic and if ingested is fatal. Thinking about how the wind moves and how so many contributing factors of how this nuclear waste could become transported really scares me. Think about it we already have a nuclear plume over the ocean coming our way. What if it comes and all the food and water in Washington and all the other western states gets contaminated? What would we do? Or what if the food from Japan that gets shipped here was contaminated and someone misses something and people die from it. Granted only 4 percent of food import comes from Japan. But still lives are at risk. Think about in Japan they are an island. All that toxic fumes will eventually end up in the ocean water or evaporated to them come down and contaminate all the plants. This is a very scary situation. Japan might not be able to get rid of these toxic fumes for a while and all that leaking is getting evaporated and absorbed in the air. That will come down and affect us some way somehow. I know they can’t go and put a huge bubble over Japan. But I feel like more things should be done besides scanning things to see if there dial goes up for radiation or not. Also I have learned that America has learned from Japans mistakes. We in the states have thought about if something like this has happened what we would do. After September 11 they made sure there nuclear plants could handle a situation like this also to make sure not to put Nuclear power plants near populated cities. So that makes me think why didn’t Japan think about this and why didn’t Japans backup generators work. I feel people don’t think about situations like this until they happen which is not the way to go. Millions of people’s lives are at risk for something that could have been prevented. No matter what the government says I feel like a lot more things have been contaminated than what is being told. Japan along with a lot of other countries including the United States will be dealing with this issue for a long time. If it is with people dying from radiation, or plants from acidic rain, or animals from eating contaminated plants a lot of things are going to go wrong before they get better.
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