Horror in Fukushima. Monkeys and wild boars will be sent to areas contaminated by radioactivity to map the area affected by the nuclear disaster
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himFukushima. Where man cannot arrive, he will be sent animals. News like this sounds incredible, but it's real. To check the levels of radioactivity in the area affected by the nuclear disaster of the Daiichi, will be sacrificed monkeys and wild boars, used in the same way of real quarries.
The brilliant idea of Japanese government was disclosed by Le Parisien, according to which after struggling for months to stabilize the Fukushima reactor, the authorities are trying to plan a colossal project: clean up contaminated land. Welcome.
But to do that they will need one detailed map of the poisoned areas. What to do if the man cannot get close? Once again, it will be the animals, and in particular monkeys and wild boars, on which they would be mounted GPS, counters and dosimeters.
“Using these wild animals it will allow us to create an accurate map of the radiation levels in the heart of the forests that cover 71% of the prefecture of Fukushima and are sometimes difficult to reach "explained the vice president of the Japanese university,Takayuki Takahashi.
Equipped with electronic bracelets, i Records they have already been sent last October near the area, in the city of Minamisoma, but the instrumentation can no longer be recovered as well as the data. For this a new suicide mission, this time with monkeys and wild boars, to repeat the experiment in March. The use of these "guinea pigs" will complete the measurements of the radioactivity carried out by helicopters and airplanes on contaminated areas, which have now become no man's land.
I liquidators of Fukushima will therefore be animals, employed, according to Japanese experts for save the forests from nuclear contamination. By sacrificing them, the scientists hope to know the level of exposure of the animals and the impact of radiation on the wildlife living near the plant. But above all they hope to determine “the movement of the radioactivity"In forests that may already have been" highly contaminated ". Meanwhile, in recent days, some journalists with protective suits and masks have been introduced into the Fukushima plant.
"In Fukushima, forest areas are the main sources of wood, water and food," he said Takahashi. “Contamination from cesium from forests thus risks damaging agriculture, fishing and residential areas even in the vicinity".
We are absolutely certain that any measure aimed at decontaminating and remediating the area affected by the nuclear disaster is urgent, but why sacrifice animals? Human technologies, of which the Japan often leads the way, really can't they replace living beings?
Francesca Mancuso
