4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. While only time can tell how the wildlife near Fukushima’s inhabitable zone will genetically evolve, the profusion of animals is a testament of not only Mother Nature’s strength, but also a symbol of the resilience of those who choose to stay in the now evacuated zones. The Chernobyl disaster (also called the Chornobyl disaster) was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. (Photo/IAEA Imagebank) The worst nuclear disaster since the 1986. It should be noted that this study is not focused on how radiation can affect animals and potential mutations to their genes, but rather what type of behavioral changes occur within animal populations in the wake of a nuclear meltdown. Some Japanese media reported that Japan’s Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) had confirmed that this was a meltdown, contradicted by other Japanese government sources who said that the explosion only affected the outer shell and not the core of the reactor. Workers at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station work among underground water storage pools in 2013. “I wonder if any of the animals mutated due to radiation exposure?” The proximate cause of the nuclear disaster was the 2011 Thoku earthquake and tsunami natural disaster that occurred on 11 March 2011 and was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan. “Seems like a similar situation to Chernobyl.” The Fukushima nuclear disaster was a 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in kuma, Fukushima, Japan. “No humans to hunt them or destroy their habitats. An abridged, translated version of the study garnered a variety of responses from Japanese netizens: