陳蕙雅思閱讀短文 - 福島核電站污染2014年漂到美國

2011年日本遭遇了強烈的海嘯襲擊，於是福島核電站就躺槍了，雖然福島核電站在建設初期考慮到了各種地震可能性給了一球措施，可是最後竟然沒有想到襲擊這廝的是海嘯，於是各種側漏而且根據科學家研究，核洩漏的廢水將隨著洋流於2014年漂流到美國……

A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how the ocean's currents circulate around the world.

Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 could begin flowing into U.S. coastal waters starting in early 2014 and peak in 2016. Luckily, two ocean currents off the eastern coast of Japan — the Kuroshio Current and the Kuroshio Extension — would have diluted the radioactive material so that its concentration fell well below the World Health Organization's safety levels within four months of the Fukushima incident. But it could have been a different story if nuclear disaster struck on the other side of Japan.

"The environmental impact could have been worse if the contaminated water would have been released in another oceanic environment in which the circulation was less energetic and turbulent," said Vincent Rossi, an oceanographer and postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Spain.