As the Fukushima world disaster continues to unfold, we have
learned that the strontium levels are 240 times over the legal
limit near the plant, which has become an uninhabitable land
area. The nuclear waste advisor to the Japanese government
recently explained that roughly 966 square kilometers (km), or
600 square miles, around Fukushima are now uninhabitable due to
the unfolding disaster. This massive dead zone area is
equivalent in size to 17 Manhattan Islands placed next to one
another. Unfortunately, the latest readings taken approximately
20 miles out to sea from the site showed radioisotope levels
from all the radioactive particles were ten times higher than
those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas after the massive
Chernobyl disaster. "Given that the Fukushima plant is on the
ocean, and with leaks and runoff directly to the ocean, the
impacts on the ocean will exceed those of Chernobyl, which was
hundreds of miles from any sea," said Ken Buessler, Senior
Scientist in Marine Chemistry at the Woods