Posted on 01/11/2020 9:11:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
Wildlife like the Japanese serow... are flourishing in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, images from remotely-operated cameras have revealed
Wildlife ecologist James Beasley of the University of Georgia, in the US, and colleagues used a network of 106 remote cameras to capture images of the wildlife in the area around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant over a four-month period.
Taking more than 267,000 photos, the cameras captured images of more than 20 species — among which were foxes, Japanese hares and pheasants.
'Our results represent the first evidence that numerous species of wildlife are now abundant throughout the Fukushima Evacuation Zone, despite the presence of radiological contamination,' said Professor Beasley.
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Well, see, they’re stupid.
Godzira!
“Scientists” said the same thing after Mt. St. Helens erupted. It would take ten thousand years for vegetation and wildlife to return. Both began returning within a couple of years.
And the neat thing is now the boar comes pre-cooked. All you have to do is slice into it.
SPAM!
Not quite the same, but when the Feds constructed the Hanford Project and closed off the 560 square miles around it, it created a similar wildlife area. Now there are trophy size elk and mule deer that wander freely throughout the site. Elk and mule deer were range land animals were pushed out to the hills and mountains by civilization. Here they roam their native habitat.
It also the only free flowing stretch of the Columbia River.
Same result in Chernobyl.
There it is.
It always amazed me how many of the control room staff that were exposed at Chernobyl including the technicians that had to go under the exposed core to drain the water lived normal average lives after they recovered from the immediate effects. Biological systems have evolved complex systems of redundancy that can restore normal cell division after damage to genes. The expected increase in the cancer statistics are based on a principal called Linear, No Threshold (LNT) dosage which means there is no safe limit to ionizing radiation. Stories like since seem to call into question the validity of this theory.
-—Rocky Flats near Denver has the same situation-—a massive wildlife preserve—
In the areas surrounding the Hanford site, hunters were requested to take their kills to the lab onsite for testing.
We were at the gate waiting for shooting hours to start bird hunting in Franklin County on the other side of the Columbia when we spotted a pickup truck driving towards us. When the guy pulled up near us he got out a was proudly showing us his big mule deer buck that he had just shot. I asked if he was going to take it and have checked for radioactivity. He didn’t know what I was talking about, so I explained to him how the deer swim back and forth across the Columbia and there’s a possibility that they are contaminated.
He asked what if they find something and I told him they would keep it. He asked if I thought they would let him at least kerp the rack. I told him no because that alpha and beta particale contamination resides in the bones and would also be in the horns.
He then tried to give it to us so he could at least keep his deer tag..
“Not quite the same, but when the Feds constructed the Hanford Project and closed off the 560 square miles around it, it created a similar wildlife area.”
A smaller, more urban example involving the Feds would be the deer herd inside the grounds of the National Institute for Standards and Technology at Gaithersburg MD.
Bump to the giant lizard.
A smaller example is the city owned watershed around a large lake in my old hometown. It’s not fenced but the deer herd favors it and the yard landscaping in the adjoining high dollar neighborhoods.
Glacier National Park is removing a sign put up a decade ago that stated this glacier would be gone - melted - by 2020...
More BS liberal ‘scientists’ insanity...
Mothra, Rodan, Angrius, king ghidora, kamakarus, manilla, kumonga, manda, gorosaurus, hedoramegalon
I just watched the godzilla marathon series on TCM lol
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