August was a busy month for me I guess so I somehow managed to miss this item about the mutated butterflies found near the Fukushima radiation zone.
Even though it is a few months old, the damage from the fallout is going to impact our world for a long time to come so I thought this would still be worth sharing in case I am not the only one who missed it when the butterflies were originally discovered…
Related articles
- Fukushima clean-up mess – a disaster on top of the nuclear disaster (nuclear-news.net)
- Mainstream media has gone quiet about Fukushima radioactive sea flows to USA (nuclear-news.net)
- Report: Freaky mutant bugs found – Likely a first, says expert – Prefecture bordering Fukushima (PHOTOS) (enenews.com)
It’s also very interesting to compare such results from Fukushima with the ones from around Chernobyl. Obviously at Chernobyl it wasn’t possible to begin research so early, so Japan offers an opportunity to study the early effects and see how the process of mutation progresses. Whereas as Chernobyl and surrounding areas the changes are generationally much farther ahead and there has been no way to study the earlier changes.
It is interesting to see what mutations occur and how the occur, even if the cause if beyond tragic. I wonder if we will ever really truly know how much damage was done between the two events? On the other hand, maybe I’m better off not knowing…
Possibly!