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Fukushima nuclear plant’s exclusion zone overtaken by wild animals
Fox News ^ | 1/9/2020 | Christopher Carbone

Posted on 01/11/2020 11:31:22 AM PST by Pontiac

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima's nuclear plant to melt down prompted the Japanese goverment to evacuate a huge area as dangerous radiation spread.

The evacuated region, which was carved up into several zones based on how the radiation spread, has become home for a wide range of wild animals that apparently found a way to thrive amid the desolation despite the radiation.

“Over time, some wildlife species have responded favorably to the absence of humans, even in the presence of high radiation levels, resulting in a rewilding of the evacuation zones,” Thomas Hinton, a radioecologist at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity at Fukushima University who worked on the study, told Earther.

Researchers set up cameras in all of the zones. They were able to collect more than 267,000 images over the course of two 60-day periods, providing a unique glimpse of animals roaming the Fukushima countryside -- including feral hogs, monkeys and a fox.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: fallout; fukushima; nuclearpower; radiation
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The same thing has happened at Chernobyl. With the absence of humans the wild life has returned to the exclusion area around the accident site and thrived.

I have serious doubts about the detrimental effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure.

1 posted on 01/11/2020 11:31:22 AM PST by Pontiac
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Longitudinal monitoring of Japanese from Hiroshima and Nagasaki show much lower levels than expected of long term effects.
2 posted on 01/11/2020 11:34:19 AM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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Do these animals have a kind of green glow in the dark?


3 posted on 01/11/2020 11:34:24 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Do those critters have healthy, fertile offspring...?


4 posted on 01/11/2020 11:35:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Maybe you could plug ‘em in - light up a whole city maybe...


5 posted on 01/11/2020 11:40:14 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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They have a nice healthy glow.

But it’s not green.


6 posted on 01/11/2020 11:45:07 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: mewzilla

Do those critters have healthy, fertile offspring...?

Yes, but if anyone eats them for dinner, the eaters don’t need a night light for awhile.


7 posted on 01/11/2020 11:47:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I rememer reading of scientists at that time saying nothing would grow in Hiroshima or Nagazaki for the next 90 years!

A year later the area began to bloom again.


8 posted on 01/11/2020 11:56:26 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Years ago, I read of a herd of cattle caught in the fallout of America’s first nuke test in New Mexico.

The herd was taken to Oak Ridge, and montiored for years. Most were eventually killed to make forensic tests, but one cow (Old Granny), continued to drop a normal calf every year for 19 years.


9 posted on 01/11/2020 11:59:28 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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The current operational theory is that there is no threshold limit for radiation exposure that causes damaging effects to health.

I think that Chernobyl and Fukushima provide proof that this may not be the case.

Some scientist could get a couple of ground breaking papers out of this.

10 posted on 01/11/2020 12:01:20 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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But some of the warnings about radiation seem to be valid. For instance, I live near Three Mile Island. Back at the time, I was warned that all my grandchildren would be born naked. And so far, every one of ‘em has! Science is awesome!


11 posted on 01/11/2020 12:03:19 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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It ain’t green.

It’s blue.


12 posted on 01/11/2020 12:07:16 PM PST by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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I was warned that all my grandchildren would be born naked. And so far, every one of ‘em has! Science is awesome!

How strange.

My boys were born in three-piece suits and my daughter in an evening gown. Off the rack of course. We could never afford tailored.

13 posted on 01/11/2020 12:07:57 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Where’s Godzilla?


14 posted on 01/11/2020 12:20:44 PM PST by hardspunned
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Where’s Godzilla?

You must of heard.

He moved to Hollywood when he made the movie with Matthew Broderick in 1998.

And he has been making movies there ever since

15 posted on 01/11/2020 12:29:26 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Kinda like Elvis moving to Las Vegas.


16 posted on 01/11/2020 12:52:00 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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17 posted on 01/11/2020 12:52:06 PM PST by rfp1234
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To: Redcitizen

Viva Las Vegas baby!


18 posted on 01/11/2020 12:54:56 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac


19 posted on 01/11/2020 1:49:14 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: rfp1234

Coo!


20 posted on 01/11/2020 3:42:17 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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