The 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami caused one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. Now, two and a half years later, Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority just announced that it is officially reclassifying the radioactive water leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from a Level 1 to a Level 3.
The disaster is far worse than what officials believed to be true. Ken Buesseler, a Marine Chemistry Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been studying the leak since the beginning of the problem. He said there have been persistent leaks at the site since the beginning...
