Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Causing Mutant Daisies?
This photo appears to show some mutant daisies, photographed and shared on Twitter by @San_kaido. The poster, who lives in Nasushiobara city, shared some details about the photo: “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.”
However, news reporters spoke to gardening experts who say that this type of deformity in daisies shows a hormonal imbalance that is fairly rare in wild flowers. Could this deformation be caused by radiation? Right now there is no proof to say whether these flowers are being affected by the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown which occurred 4 years ago.
The devastating tsunami which struck Japan in March, 2011, caused meltdowns in three of Fukushima’s six reactors. Earlier reports suggested that some of the vegetation surrounding the nuclear plants became mutated due to nuclear waste leaking in to the ground water.
