Radioactive Effects from Human Activity

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Map reveals the most radioactive places on earth - including the US and UK

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Nuclear weapons testing and industrial accidents have created some highly radioactive areas in the world.

The Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant disaster saw the plant’s three reactors leaking radioactive material and spillovers of contaminated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean .

Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the US nuclear weapons stockpile.

The Semipalatinsk Test Site , also called the Polygon , is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear weapons and it is estimated that around 456 bombs were dropped there in total between 1949 and 1989 .

Somalia ’s shores have become a dumping ground for a large amount of nuclear and hazardous waste.

The United Nations Environment Program believes that the rusting barrels of waste washed up on the Somali coastline during the 2004 tsunami were dumped as far back as the 1990s .

In 1979 , a large spill sent thousands of tons of solid radioactive mill waste and gallons of acidic solution into the Puerco River .

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