Fukushima radiation causes insect mutations: researchers

Updated August 17 2012 - 3:18pm, first published 2:38pm
Mutations ... an adult pale grass blue butterfly found near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is shown with dented eyes and stunted wings at the university laboratory in Nishihara,  Okinawa, Japan.
Mutations ... an adult pale grass blue butterfly found near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is shown with dented eyes and stunted wings at the university laboratory in Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan.

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear plant has caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment, though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.

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