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Japan: Fukushima Monkeys' Blood Shows Signs of Radiation Exposure

2014-07-24 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Wild monkeys living in forests of Fukushima the Japanese city that was the site of a nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011 have lower blood cell counts than monkeys from northern Japan, and carry detectable levels of cesium in their bodies, researchers have found. The researchers studied blood changes and signs of radiation exposure in 61 monkeys living 43 miles (70 kilometers) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, about one year after an earthquake and tsunami struck the region in...

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