In this Highlight, Herre looks at how nuclear waste has impacted the lives of wild boars living in Japan. More specifically, he discusses how, following the 2011 triple disaster, boars responded to the departure of humans from the Fukushima area and how the animals are being impacted by their slow return.

Recorded: 15 May 2024.

Featured:

• Evaluation of DNA damage and stress in wildlife chronically exposed to low-dose, low-dose rate radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by Kelly Cunningham et al.
• Fukushima Daiichi Accident on The World Nuclear Association.
• Rewilding of Fukushima's human evacuation zone by Phillip C Lyons et al.
• Disproportionately High Contributions of 60 Year Old Weapons-137Cs Explain the Persistence of Radioactive Contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars by Felix Stäger et al.
• Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home on The New York Times.
• The dogs of Chernobyl: Demographic insights into populations inhabiting the nuclear exclusion zone by Gabriella J. Spatola et al.
• Rare look at the wildlife thriving in North Korea's DMZ on The Natural History Museum.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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