Fukushima vs. Chernobyl: How Have Animals Fared?

New York Times: For a little bird, bee or butterfly trying to make it in the world, which is the worse place to land: Fukushima or Chernobyl? On the one hand, there's the risk from the release of radioactive materials that occurred in Japan just over a year ago. On the other, there's the threat of mutations from accumulated environmental contamination over the past quarter-century from the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine. Researchers set out to see whether these radionuclide-laden zones are equally detrimental...

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