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Radioactive pigs have taken over the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone
A decade after 18,000 people were killed and 160,000 fled their homes after the Fukushima nuclear reactor was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami - the area has become a wasteland taken over by hybrids of pigs fleeing abandoned farms and wild boars exposed to radiation
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In video: Japan marks decade of tsunami disaster in Fukushima (Reuters)
Hybrids of domesticated pigs and radioactive wild boars have begun to roam across Fukushima, Japan since the nuclear disaster that occurred there in 2011 turned the region into a wilderness.
The New York Post reported that this is a new radioactive hybrid, created when wild boars roaming the evacuated area multiplied with domestic pigs fleeing local farms, according to a study published last Wednesday in the Royal Society.
"Radioactive radiation does not appear to have caused the wild boars any effect and no genetic change, and it is precisely the invasive domestic pig that is responsible for the change," Donovan Anderson, a researcher at Fukushima University, told the BBC.
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The Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor, located 220 km northeast of Tokyo, was destroyed in a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that began in March 2011. As a result, mass was in three reactors and all reactors in the country were temporarily closed. More than 160,000 residents fled the nearby towns Due to the severe radioactive contamination and close to 18,500 people died or disappeared during the disaster.
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The researchers found that the Japanese wild boars exposed to the radioactive radiation survived it and took over the abandoned area. They are described in the study as rude and aggressive and in recent years they have also started breeding with the domesticated pigs that escaped from the abandoned farms of their previous owners. They have created a new type of wild boar and domestic pig hybrid that inhabits the evacuated primary exclusion zone - located 20 km from the nuclear station site, where radiation levels are highest.
The researchers found that the nuclear disaster led to a "biological invasion" of the genes of domestic pigs, which were "thinned" over time by wild boars whose population size was greatly intensified in the absence of humans.
"I think the domestic pigs have not been able to survive in the wild, but the wild boars have thrived in the abandoned towns - because they are so strong," Anderson explained.
The researchers examined DNA samples from 243 local pigs and found that 16 percent of the wild boars from the abandoned area were hybrids.
Now, humans who have begun to gradually and slowly return to the radioactive region in recent years have a new danger to deal with, scientists predict.
"Humans are really the only predators that threaten these wild boars," Anderson said.
"So when people come back, it's going to be really interesting to see what those pigs do."
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