NIRS reported 98 percent of fir trees deformed in no-returning zone of Fukushima

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NIRS (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)  published a report on Scientific Reports of Nature.com on 8/28/2015. In this report, 97.6 % of Japanese fir trees had deformation by the beginning of 2015 in the area where it is expected that the residents have difficulties in returning for a long time (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).

Those deformed trees don’t have sprouts to stop growing. The area spreads in Ookuma-town and Namie-town. The atmospheric is observed to be 33.9 μSv/h. In the area where the atmospheric dose is 19.6 μSv/h, the deformation rate was 43.5 %, and in the area where the dose is 6.85 μSv/h, the rate was 27%. This is showing the significant connection between the atmospheric dose and the deformation rate of Japanese fir.

The deformation of Pinus sylvestris was also seen in Chernobyl accident.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep13232#f3

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