Mother Jones: Last March, the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami that sent over 45-foot waves of water crashing down on the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. While health officials scrambled to quickly stabilize the situation, it was unclear how much radiation had made it out of the plant--and how it could affect people, plants, and animals who came into contact with it. Preliminary studies concluded that most...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/16/fukushima-radiation-butterflies
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/pictures/2011/5/4/1304521030457/Butterfly-silhouette-on-r-007.jpg
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