The Fukushima power plant that was destroyed in the rogue tsunami from that devastating earthquake in Japan that killed at least 25,000 to 30,000 people at that time, is an ongoing problem for Japan and to some degree for the whole human race. It is not like Chernobyl that was land locked and so could be contained in cement to where only the local lands were contaminated as well as any water moving under the plant in underground streams or springs.
No. Fukushima is a long term problem that wasn't at first as bad as Chernobyl but as time goes on it surely will be much worse for Japan and the world. The reason for this is:
1. Because of Japan's size and population density there is no safe place to put radiated water or other radiated materials. So, the natural place all this radiated material will tend to wind up is to stay either on the land or through rust and springs and other problems slowly drift into the sea.
note: However, U.S. Navy nuclear submarines that are regularly scuttled when they go out of service off the coast of San Francisco in the Pacific Ocean might be giving off some radiation too.
2. However, one of the reactors was a plutonium reprocessor of nuclear weapons. So, this is the one that is the most problematic for thousands of years. So, even though complete meltdowns happened in 3 nuclear reactors and a 4th had serious problems too, the plutonium reprocessor is the one that will cause problems in Japan and westward through the oceans because of prevailing winds and currents for thousands of years into the future.
3. Since there is no safe place to put radiated materials except into the ocean which likely will mutate many fish and aquatic species there, this will be a problem for anyone who catches migrating fish, sharks, Tuna or other migratory species of aquatic creatures for thousands of years to come who will be or have already been exposed to the extreme radiation of the waters off of Fukushima from underground rivers flowing into the ocean there.
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