Fukushima Aftermath
Wildlife around Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have survived exposure to radiation from the meltdowns of the plant’s three nuclear reactors without serious consequences, according to a new international study.
Massive releases of radioactive material from the March 2011 disaster contaminated the Fukushima landscape and forced the evacuation of over 150,000 residents. But scientists writing in the journal Environment International say DNA and other markers in the region’s wildlife did not show any adverse health effects.
They did find unusually low levels of cortisol, a stress indicator, in some wild animals living in the evacuated Exclusion Zone.
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