Fukushima in 2011: result was spotty cows, infertile butterflies and monkeys with low blood cell counts, say scientists.

The United Nations is deliberately ignoring evidence of genetic damage caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to international scientists who point to signs of mutations in animals, birds and plants.

Members of the US-based Chernobyl and Fukushima research initiative have denounced a recent UN report on the 2011 disaster in Japan which, they say, fails to take proper account of symptoms as diverse as spotty cows, infertile butterflies, and monkeys with low blood cell counts.

“There is now an abundance of information demonstrating injury in individuals, populations and eco-systems stemming from the low dose radiation due to the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters,” said Timothy Mousseau, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern Carolina.

“They have clearly ignored – and I can