Volunteers are being asked to grow the flowers then send the seeds to the stricken area, where they will be planted next year to help get rid of radioactive contaminants in the plant's fallout zone.
Thousands of sunflower seeds have been sold including to the city of Yokohama, which is growing sunflowers in 200 parks.
On the home-front, yellow is no longer a tricky color to wear as yellow attire but without the Bersih logo is now allowed according to Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar.
For foreign readers, Bersih means Clean in the local language. The rally recently held on July 9 is a call by Bersih, an NGO, for Clean and Fair elections advocating electoral reforms.
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Is it? Sunflowers can help decontaminate radioactive soil? First time hearing this!
ReplyDeleteoh really?? sunflowers can help to decontaminate radioactive soil?? that's interesting, thanks for sharing this info.. and i actually love sunflowers.. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this HappySurfer. The cesium in the soil acts like potassium which plants need and is often applied as a fertilizer. By not adding potassium fertilizer, they hope that the sunflower plants will take up the radioactive cesium instead. Then the plants can be decomposed using bacteria, concentrating the cesium into a small volume which can then be safely stored as radioactive waste.
ReplyDeletei think my house has a few.. not sure if there are real or not.. lol.. coz we used to have fake sunflowers inside the house :P
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