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Fukushima caused 'mutant butterflies'

Researchers and medical doctors have so far denied that the accident at Fukushima would cause an elevated incidence of cancer or leukemia, diseases that are often associated with radiation exposure.

But they also noted that long-term medical examination is needed especially due to concerns over thyroid cancer among young people - a particular problem for people following the Chernobyl catastrophe.

Questions

1. When did the quake-sparked tsunami happen in Japan?

2. Fukushima was the world's worst atomic disaster in how many years?

3. What was the rate of abnormalities recorded in the butterflies offspring?

Answers

1. March 2011.

2. 25.

3. 52 percent.

About the broadcaster:

Rosie Tuck is a copy editor at the China Daily website. She was born in New Zealand and graduated from Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communications studies majoring in journalism and television. In New Zealand she was working as a junior reporter for the New Zealand state broadcaster TVNZ. She is in Beijing on an Asia New Zealand Foundation grant, working as a journalist in the English news department at the China Daily website.