Tag: Japan
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The Fukushima Disaster- Are there more to Follow?
The nuclear disaster in Japan on 11th March 2011 is considered to be one of the most harmful nuclear disasters ever. The disaster was a failure in three out of the six nuclear reactors at Okuma, Fukushima in Japan. The cause of the failure was a powerful tsunami which hit the site and resulted in…
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Whaling in Antarctic
Weighing up to 80 tons and almost twice the length of a school bus, the massive fin whale known as the greyhound of the sea for its swimming speed was the victim of decades of commercial slaughter that killed them by the tens of thousands each year. International cooperation on whaling regulation began in 1931…