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Fukushima nuclear disaster will impact forests, rivers and estuaries for hundreds of years, warns Greenpeace report

Tokyo, 4 March 2016 – The environmental impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will last decades to centuries, warns a new Greenpeace Japan report. Man-made, long-lived radioactive elements are absorbed into the living tissues of plants and animals and recycled through food webs, and carried downstream to the Pacific Ocean by typhoons, snowmelt, and …