The rats with fat arms weave through the grass, like carp crossing the river. The ferocious wild boar, which grew to 400 pounds, leisurely wandered the streets of Xiao Suo. Fukushima, Japan, once peaceful and peaceful, has now become a "paradise" for mutant creatures!
On April 13, 2021, Japan announced the discharge of "nuclear wastewater" into the high seas, causing panic around the world. The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan 11 years ago has once again returned to the public eye. In addition to the discussion of "how to deal with nuclear wastewater" and "Fukushima's ecological radiation content", the mutant animals running around the streets of Fukushima are even more frighteningly cold sweaty!
"Special-shaped training base"
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan's Northeast Pacific "shook" the world. While people are still worried about the safety of the people of Fukushima in the earthquake, they do not know that an even bigger "world-class" disaster has quietly arrived. The tsunami secondary to the earthquake caused the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants to fail and explode one after another, causing nuclear radiation leakage! A global alarm bell for a time! Japan immediately evacuated 160,000 people from Fukushima, leaving behind a ghost town with the "pause button" pressed, and the animals and plants in the city that could not leave.
In the blink of an eye, 11 years have passed since the nuclear radiation event. Every year, nuclear radiation inspectors enter this "human forbidden area" armed, saying that Fukushima, a "living ruin", seems to have calmed down and is still full of danger.
Yes, radiation levels throughout Fukushima are still at the "high risk" level. This means that the flora and fauna living in Fukushima have been exposed to excessive radiation. How much nuclear radiation is there in Fukushima?
According to the calculations of Japan's TEPCO corporation in recent years, the radiation value of some areas of the Daiichi nuclear power plant is 530Sv/h. The radiation dose for a single chest CT is only 0.0001Sv. In other words, staying in some of Fukushima's highly radiant areas for an hour is equivalent to taking 5,300,000 ct!
Even if the animals and plants are not close to these central areas, the amount of radiation in the surrounding areas is around 5-10 Sv/h, far exceeding the safe dose of 0.0005 Sv/h. Excessive radiation can cause chromosomal abnormalities in animals and plants, which can cause population variation, and the animals and plants here live in "heterotypic culture bases"!
"Mutant animals in hatching"
Every year, inspectors enter Fukushima. In addition to the danger of nuclear radiation, the most headache for these inspectors is the "giant" wild boar herd that has long regarded Fukushima as its "territory"!
In the eyes of the former Fukushima people, the Fukushima wild boar is small in size, gentle in personality, and has no problem with humans. But now the Fukushima wild boar has a cruel personality, like a "mad dog", and will bite at the sight of living creatures that move. It can even crash into buildings for no reason and destroy them. These wild boars are "huge", 2 meters long, and casually have 400 pounds. The appetite is excellent, and when there is not enough food, it will eat the same kind. The inspectors saw that they had to go around, lest they provoke these "mutant pigs".
In addition, turtles, foxes, rabbits and other animals have been found to have different degrees of mutation. Fukushima's plants are also constantly mutating, such as deformed and huge strawberries, potatoes shaped like the soles of a child's feet, and so on. The "mutation" of terrestrial animals and plants appears relatively slowly, and the rapid mutation of marine life is "frightening"!
According to local fishermen in Fukushima, wolffish were caught several meters long. The heads of these wolffish are visibly deformed, hideous and out of proportion, and fishermen dare not eat them. The black squid even emits "fluorescence", especially in the night ocean. In April 2021, the Japanese government announced an emergency ban on fishing and marketing black sturgeon in Fukushima Prefecture after detecting the radiation content of black squid. It broke the situation that the seafood in the sea area of Fukushima Prefecture was completely unsealed in February 2020.
But is it really just the black scorpion that contains radiation? According to Scientific Reports, cesium-137 and strontium-90 half-lives in these mutant species are both about 30 years. The Japanese government lifted the ban on Seafood from Fukushima, simply abandoning the safety of the people and causing the radioactive fish to flow to the public's table!
What's even more frightening is that the mutated animals we see so far are all species that often appear in human vision, such as wild boars, rats, fish and other creatures.
So, what about where we can't see? Are there already mutated giant insects waiting to move. Many insects have a long growth period and need to lie dormant underground for many years before breaking through the soil, such as cicadas, insects and other organisms. These insects must be affected by nuclear radiation more than other creatures!
"Where does nuclear waste go from here?"
How terrifying the radiation is is, as can be seen in the "mutation" of these animals. So how terrifying is nuclear radiation? What are the effects of exposure to nuclear radiation?
In September 1999, a Japanese nuclear power plant worker, Hisashi Ouchi, suffered about 20 Sv of radiation due to an accident. Ouchi did not die immediately, but watched in the hospital as his entire body festered and his muscles fell off and died. After his body decayed from the inside out, Ouchi survived for 83 days before he died.
Scientists have found that nuclear radiation has caused all the chromosomes of cells in the body to break. This also causes a sharp decrease in white blood cells, and the cells cannot regenerate. Even when healthy white blood cells and blood are injected into the great long time, the chromosomes of the new cells will break. In other words, the person who receives excessive nuclear radiation will himself become a "mobile source of nuclear radiation"! The same is true even if we are not directly exposed to excess nuclear radiation. Long-term consumption of food and water containing nuclear radiation, nuclear radiation will also accumulate in the body, resulting in cancer, leukemia, fetal malformations and other diseases. Just like the "wild boars" and animals in Fukushima, they gradually become "alien".
If Japan really discharged "nuclear wastewater" into the sea, it would undoubtedly give the whole world a dose of "poison", torturing the children and grandchildren of mankind to mutate and die in deformity. Because japan's so-called precision filtration program does not filter the radioactive material - tritium. This radiation is extremely easy to accumulate in the human food chain. In addition, radioactive elements such as cesium 137, strontium 90, and iodine 129 cannot be completely filtered, and the half-life of iodine 129 is 15.7 million years long.
Once these "radiations" enter the sea, they spread around the world with the currents. The first to bear the brunt are South Korea and China. The world "talks about nuclear discoloration" and refuses Japan to discharge nuclear wastewater into the high seas! It is not the state and scientists who are creating public opinion, but the "nuclear radiation" is really untainted!
What exactly should be done with this nuclear waste? Is there really only one way to discharge the sea? Historically, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident used the method of discharging sewage as a "coffin seal". Most of the low-radiation nuclear waste is sealed and buried in the ground, waiting for a suitable new method to be disposed of. Only a very small amount of treated nuclear waste is "buried" in the sea, which is absorbed by clay on the seabed. The biggest reason why Japan does not want to be so troublesome is the small size of the country, and if this method is really adopted, it will inevitably isolate a large piece of land. This is too difficult for Japan, which has a lot of people in the "narrow land".
The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan is a secondary disaster induced by the tsunami, but it also exposes the "cowardice" of Japan's zf in handling major accidents. It is japan's zf "undecided" and not dealt with in time, resulting in nuclear power plants exploding one after another. The people of Fukushima, who have been directly harmed, have been displaced and remembered as their beautiful "hometown" and turned into a devastated "paradise of beasts." The collateral damage will be to the people of the whole world! While urging Japan ZF to properly dispose of nuclear waste and not discharge it into the sea. The whole world should also take this as a warning, improve the worldwide common international regulations and monitoring and inspection system of nuclear weapons, and at the same time avoid the use of nuclear weapons!
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