Dedicated to the Mystery Surrounding the 2 Tsunami Dogs

“Kiyomi Yokota, a naturalist and secretary of the Fukushima Nature Conservation Association, said that standing up for wildlife in the current situation would be difficult. “If people want to go home, I don’t think I could tell them, ‘No, stop the decontamination, save the fish,’” he said. Human health, in other words, trumps habitat.”
“Some species on the prefecture’s Red List of endangered or threatened species — including a grassland butterfly and the Japanese peregrine falcon, both listed as “vulnerable” — are found there and could be impacted if projects like these are implemented on a large scale.”

“Officials involved with the cleanup are well aware of the drawbacks to these approaches: huge amounts of radioactive waste that no one wants to store long term; immense investments of money, labor, and time; damage to wildlife habitat and soil fertility; increased erosion on scraped-bare ‘You take away all the soil and the ecosystem is destroyed,’ says one scientist. hillsides; and intrusion by people and machinery into every area scheduled for remediation.”

Nuclear Industry and the “unspoken” cost of its “safe cheap energy”. And, as is apparent with the whole Fukushima Nuclear disaster, no concern about the Fukushima animals, wild or domestic, shown by anyone involved. The animals that live there don’t pay taxes, the people that they would like to have move back, well, they do. And, as the Government of Japan has shown by their financing of radiation studies; the animals in the Fukushima contaminated areas, they are just a way for them to be able to measure “external and internal” radiation exposure.

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_fukushima_cleanup_begins_long-term_impacts_are_weighed/2482/