Mutant Flowers From Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Go Viral Online [1]

Source: www.weather.com [2] | Original Post Date: July 20, 2015 –

Four years after the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, strange things still are happening to the plants and animals living there.

Recent years have brought reports of deformed fruit [3] and mutant butterflies [4], 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.

Translated from Japanese, @san_kaiod’s tweet [5] describes how the daisies growing there have apparently been impacted by exposure to radiation since the March 2011 incident, which resulted in the meltdown of three of Fukushima’s six reactors following a devastating tsunami: