After two earthquakes and a tsunami, issues in Japan continue to worsen over time. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, churning up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away the west coast of the United States and South America. Recorded as 9.0 on the Richter scale, it was the most powerful earthquake to ever hit the country.

Due to the earthquake and the horrid tsunami, explosions and leaks of radioactive gas took place in three reactors at a Nuclear Power Station that suffered partial meltdowns, while fuel rods at another reactor overheated and caught fire, releasing radioactive material directly into the atmosphere according to the NYtimes.

               
As a result of the crisis in Japan, the atomic simulations suggest that the number of serious accidents has suddenly doubled, with three of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in some stage of meltdown.

               
With hundreds of thousands of people displaced north from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, highly contaminated water is escaping a damaged reactor at the crippled nuclear power plant and could soon leak into the ocean, the country’s nuclear regulator warned according to the NYtimes.

“They don’t want to go there,” said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert who, from 1993 to 1999, was a policy adviser to the secretary of energy. “The spin is all about reassurance.”

The discovery raises the danger of further radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and is a further setback to efforts to contain the nuclear crisis as workers find themselves in increasingly hazardous conditions.

               
According to CNN, officials have also reported there was some plutonium found in the soil on the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

               
Trace levels of radioactivity have also been found by sensitive monitoring equipment at three nuclear power plants in Florida according to news-journalonline.com. State and federal officials, as well as utility companies, say the levels are “barely detectable” and far below a level that would cause any health concerns.

                
 Even so, the public authorities have sought to avoid grim technical details that might trigger alarm or even panic.