Use the site toxicsites.us (or other similar site maintained internationally) to find the Superfund site (or site contaminated by anthropogenic practices) closest to where you grew up. Write a 500 word description that covers the geographic, political, economic and social history of the place.
I was trying to use this website ToxicSites.us to find Superfund venues around where I grew up.
But I was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Therefore I looked for other website instead.
The place I would like to mention is Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture, where a nuclear reactor has melted down by an earthquake.
In 2011, there was Great East Japan earthquake, and it caused the melting down of a nuclear reactor in Fukushima prefecture. So we call the day “3.11”.
The earthquake also occurred massive tsunami ( Maximum height was 40.1m), liquefaction, land subsidence, and dam breakage. The number of deaths and missing persons is 18,425. Most of them drowned in the tsunami. Also the number of destruction of buildings is 404,893. World bank mentioned that the economic losses caused by natural disasters were the largest ever.
One hour after the earthquake happened, the Fukushima First Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a 14 - 15 meter tsunami. Then Unit 1-5 has lost all AC power which caused a meltdown on No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 reactors. This accident is the worst level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It's the same as Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
Miyagi Prefecture is known as the three disaster-affected prefectures, with Iwate and Fukushima prefectures, because the damage was particularly severe.
The population of these areas has dramatically decreased because most of them lost their home or were evacuated from the effects of radiation.
In the foreign exchange market, the yen appreciated sharply due to speculation that the yen's value would increase to raise funds for reconstruction and temporarily reached the level of 76 yen to the dollar on March 17, setting a new postwar high. In contrast, the Bank of Japan and the G7 agreed upon coordinated intervention to stabilize the market, which helped to halt the yen's appreciation.