Man Discovers ‘Mutant Daisies’ Growing At Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Four years after the powerful natural disaster and tsunami that disabled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, photographs of “mutant daisies”, taken near the site, are stirring concerns over the long-term effect of radiation.

If you are like me and can’t decipher Japanese, here’s what the tweet 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 pictures posted are said to be of the Shasta daisy. The left one has 4 stems (that) grew up to be tied to each other and it had the ring-shaped flower.

Although pictures of deformed “Fukushima vegetables” appear over the web here and there quite regularly, botanical abnormalities happen all over the world quite often and certainly have nothing to do with the Fukushima disaster. The atmospheric dose is 0.5 μSv/h at 1m above the ground.’.

Twitter user @san_kaido has shared an image of a plant mutation which he claims was taken just over 60 miles from the centre of the incident.

The area is deemed safe for long term living, but these photos have some asking if that’s really the case.

The former prime minister of Japan Naoto Kan visited the UK recently to deliver stark warnings over Britain’s continued commitment to nuclear energy.

The nuclear plant there went into melt down following the magnitude 9 quake and tsunami.

In the meantime, officials say radioactive water continues to leak from the plant every day into the Pacific Ocean.