Vegetation around Fukushima reactors is dead

ZOMBIES!?

This time last year the right part of that screen was filled with lush vegetation. Many were saying radiation can't be that bad if those plants survive in it. As you can see now, they're dead.

It's a no brainer.

You're right but it was the first thing I noticed when I revisited that webcam after many months of not doing so.

Is it winter over there?


How about learning to take a fuckin' screencap? The cam doesn't load for me.

Here's the english site.

[link to www.tepco.co.jp]

SOMEONE TAKE A FUCKING SCREENCAP.

No it's not winter, it's spring. Japan is in the northern hemisphere.

Don't forget that the whole area was exposed to extensive foot and vehicle traffic, not to mention ruptured fuel and chemical tanks. And firefighting chemicals. And who knows what other chemicals in their efforts to make the area less radioactive. And the area was likely inundated by saltwater from the tsunami. It's no wonder the vegetation is doing crappy. It's even possible they killed it off themselves to keep the ground-cover down so that the area is more navigable. Kind of a small sample area to judge the health of the local flora and fauna.

Most plants don't like seawater too much either. Puts salt in the soil, kills em.

It's spring in Japan, and the vegetation should be flourishing. I used to see a racoon there as well, and lots of birds, in the 30 mins I've been watching now, nothing. Plus there could well be a nasty event today.
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And sorry, don't know how to take a screen shot.

last year
[link to enformable.com]

SCREENCAP.

:kjksjlier:

Mushrooms are said to be in bloom. Just another reason to avoid the fungus.

fall of 11' if salt was problem it would be dead then.
[link to www.medicaldaily.com]

I couldn't speak about the whole local flora and fauna, just what's visible in that webcam.

Regarding the extensive foot and vehicle traffic... hmmm, not really. Not around the vegetation shown in this webcam, that's for sure. There has been no ground activity in that area.

That crane has not moved in months...I think.

Thanks for the screenshot Wonkish.

Lol classic!

Link loaded fine for me after a refresh.

Interesting OP, TY.

Not only that, they are criminally NOT WORKING TO FIX IT.

Ive seen the cam thousands of times,, ive never once seen a worker. And ive only once seen a crane actually move!

WOW drastically different from what it looked like last year.

Whatever the status is you can always be sure that TEPCO are utter liars.

does season pose a factor?

hmm

only there??

I am questioning myself

HOW HUMANS STILL BREATHE

in this poison...

Is that another Tsunami coming in (center of pic)? ;)

The Grass is dead
because if the Green Spray

Just playing devil's advocate. I know about the Red Forest. I'm not quite sure how comparable they are. Chernobyl=Concentrated, Fukushima=? Chernobyl was on fire, which released actual radioactive fuel particles and ash into the environment which is insanely radioactive, while Fukushima had the hydrogen explosions that released radiation into the atmosphere but not the actual fuel itself. Then there's all of the irradiated seawater used to cool the fuel that leaked into the basement, but just how radioactive was/is that water? To tell if those plants received a lethal dose of radiation is difficult to say, without knowing the radioactivity of the stuff that was released.

It wasn't grass, it was trees, with birds in them.
I really do wish you'd go away Atom Boy, and let the grownups do their real research.

Quake, Mag 6

Where's CitizenPerth - I thought it was his personal mission to "warn" us all and get us to his blog.