Scary Mutant Flowers Growing Near Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
It has been four years since the disaster at the Japan Fukushima nuclear power plant and the effects are still being calculated. Among these effects are deformed daisies.
This is not the first report of strange, freaky things happening in and around Fukushima. There have been stories published about deformed fruit and mutant butterflies but the latest is a daisy flower posted by a Twitter user (@san_kaido), who took the photo in Nasushiobara City, which is about 70 miles from Fukushima.
Four years after the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, odd things still are happening to the plants and animals living there.
Recent years have brought reports of deformed fruit and mutant butterflies, but the latest is a remarkable photo of deformed daisies posted on Twitter by @san_kaido, who took the photo below in Nasushiobara City, which lies about 70 miles from Fukushima.
The translated tweet reads:
“The right one grew up, split into 2 stems to have 2 flowers connected each other, having 4 stems of flower tied belt like. The left one has 4 stems grew up to be tied to each other and it had the ring-shaped flower. The atmospheric dose is 0.5 μSv/h at 1m above the ground.” The last sentence from the tweet — about the radiation dose now being “0.5 μSv/h at 1m above the ground” — describes the radiation dose per hour that’s now present at the site where the photo above was taken.
These numbers are classified as safe for “medium to long term habitation” according to this explanation of radiation levels. The Japanese government recently allowed 7,000 residents return home to a town near the Fukushima plant, four years after they were forced to evacuate. As the London Telegraph learned, however, it’s unclear how many residents actually will go back to live there permanently. “There are no shops. There are no doctors. I don’t know what to do,” one former resident told local Japanese media.