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(28,979 posts)From the American Assoc. for Advancement of Science article dated Sept. 2014:
The new study shows that radiation can damage larvae even at much lower concentrations. Otaki and colleagues collected leaves 16 to 20 months after the accident, after short-lived radioactive contamination had decayed, but this time from locations ranging from 59 to 1760 kilometers from the power plant; contamination levels ranged from 161 to 0.2 Bq/kg. They found that as contamination increased, mortality rates and incidences of abnormalities increased. "These results suggest that low-dose ingestion of approximately 100 Bq/kg may be seriously toxic to certain organisms," the team writes in a paper published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology.
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2014/09/fukushima-radiation-still-poisoning-insects
But this is off topic. I thought this thread was about the highly enriched uranium rods stockpiled at Fukushima. We should all heave a large sigh of relief they have been removed. One small headache out of the way.