The Japanese government may have jumped the gun in March when they gave the go-ahead for certain species of fish reeled in from the troubled waters near the partially melted-down Fukushima nuclear power plant to go to market. CNN reports that officials there this week are now saying that fish caught near the site of last year’s earthquake-tsunami-nuclear-meltdown super-disaster between mid-July and now show levels of radioactive cesium that are 258 times greater than the amount that’s considered safe for human consumption.
Though fisherman are still being permitted on a strictly trial basis to fish for the two types of octopi and one species of shellfish that were deemed safe earlier this year, recent discoveries of mutated butterflies near Fukushima have many worried that three-eyed blinky fish, à la The Simpsons, might be lurking in those radioactive waters.
Record radiation found in fish near Fukushima plant [CNN]
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