These pictures came across my Facebook news feed, showing deformed daisies that are growing 100km away from the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, that took place in 2011.
From looking at the work of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger in the past, in which she illustrates deformities she observed within insects, it is interesting to see the impact of nuclear deformities on plant life that is so far away (100km is roughly 62 miles). It shows the unintended consequences of our actions upon nature.
The tweet accompanying the pictures, reads: “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.”
