Published time: 31 Mar, 2017 08:00 Activist hunters are shooting wild boars which freely roam abandoned towns near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, as officials plan to repopulate the area. Following the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, wild boars moved into radioactive areas which residents abandoned. The animals are numerous, […]
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Radioactive pigs are wandering Central Europe, 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Thirty years after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, radiation is still turning up in some unexpected places: for instance, in the wild boars tramping through the mountains of the Czech Republic — almost a thousand miles away. These radioactive boars aren’t turning into teenage mutant ninja pigs, but they […]
