Butterflies exposed to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 had more mishapen or abnormally small wings, antennae and legs than normal, according to a team of Japanese scientists that studied the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a butterfly common in Japan.
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Birds may have been more greatly and immediately affected by the Fukushima disaster than even scientists anticipated, according to research by a team of scientists comparing effects in Japan with that of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 25 years ago.
Their findings, that the bird community within 15-30 miles of the Fukushima nuclear complex has been greatly diminished by the nuclear accident of March 2011, were published this week in Environmental Pollution.
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By The amount of radiation released during the Fukushima nuclear disaster was so great that the level of atmospheric radioactive aerosols in Washington state was 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than normal levels in the week following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the disaster.
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