By ENENews
MILES O’BRIEN: The cedar forest will remain a persistent source of cesium contamination spread by the pine needles and cones and pollen. Consider the so-called Red Forest near Chernobyl, so named because radiation from the meltdown there in 1986 killed large swathe of trees.
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MILES O’BRIEN: So this used to be pine trees as far as you can see.
GENNADI MILINEVSKY, [University of Kiev]: Yes.
MILES O’BRIEN: And the cesium came through here after the explosion. And that’s — and to this day is. . .
GENNADI MILINEVSKY: Yes, still over there.
MILES O’BRIEN: Are there animals that can live here or not?
GENNADI MILINEVSKY: No, no.
MILES O’BRIEN: No animals here?
GENNADI MILINEVSKY: Not really, yes.
TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU, University of South Carolina: All right, shall we get some — some pine needles?
MILES O’BRIEN: Milinevsky’s colleagues, scientists Tim Mousseau and Andres Moller, have studied the impact of Chernobyl on flora and fauna for more than a decade. They’re here now in Fukushima gathering samples of various trees and plants.
ANDRES MOLLER, University of Paris-Sud: The greenness of the vegetation tells something about the stages of the plants and the plant community. The more green it is, the more healthy the vegetation is.
TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU: And, of course, you know, the plant community is the foundation, the basis of the — everything else that goes on in the community. It’s what the insects feed on. It’s what some of the birds feed on, where they live. And so what happens to the plant community can have a dramatic impact on the rest of the ecosystem.
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