mutant daisies growing near Fukushima power plant

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7. Not necessarily so, hobbit709. Radiation can cause mutations.

Do you know of any published information documenting radiation levels in Japan or in the United States?

I'd like to know, especially considering how bad nuclear news seldom gets reported by Corporate Owned News.

I'm not one of those "Oh well, let's move on" types. Maybe some of the mutant flowers around the USA were affected by Fukushima radiation, or more likely, U.S. nuclear power plants. For instance:

[font color="green"][font size="4"]Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites[/font size][/font color]

AP June 21, 2011, 9:07 AM

BRACEVILLE, Ill. - Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard -- sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

While most leaks have been found within plant boundaries, some have migrated offsite. But none is known to have reached public water supplies.

At three sites -- two in Illinois and one in Minnesota -- leaks have contaminated drinking wells of nearby homes, the records show, but not at levels violating the drinking water standard. At a fourth site, in New Jersey, tritium has leaked into an aquifer and a discharge canal feeding picturesque Barnegat Bay off the Atlantic Ocean.

Previously, the AP reported that regulators and industry have weakened safety standards for decades to keep the nation's commercial nuclear reactors operating within the rules. While NRC officials and plant operators argue that safety margins can be eased without peril, critics say these accommodations are inching the reactors closer to an accident.

Any exposure to radioactivity, no matter how slight, boosts cancer risk, according to the National Academy of Sciences. Federal regulators set a limit for how much tritium is allowed in drinking water. So far, federal and industry officials say, the tritium leaks pose no health threat.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioactive-leaks-found-at-75-of-us-nuke-sites/

That was from June 2011, a few months after Fukushima. I don't recall hearing much about it at the time and nothing as far as follow-up reporting. I certainly don't recall hearing any radiation level warnings around the local nuclear plants here in Michigan.