No, it’s not Godzilla, although I think we all might be better off if it was. Greenpeace have announced this morning that they’ve found traces of radioactive life in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. They said they’ve also found radiation levels up to 50 times higher than expected, which are of great concern to animal, and human life in the area.
They further stated that the tests, verified by French and Belgian laboratories, showed above-legal levels of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in several species of fish and crustaceans, as far as 20km off the coast where the Fukushima nuclear plant melted down in March, after it was hit by a tsunami that was triggered by the famous earthquake.
Sadly, unlike in the DC Universe, where elevated levels of any type of radiation including the Sun’s rays, usually gives ordinary people some extraordinary superpowers, like for instance in the case of the fictitious character The Hulk, in real life, it usually will kill us, slowly and painfully.
