[ RadSafe ] Environment: Ingesting radioactive materials from Fukushima impacts butterflies

[Franz Schönhofer]

Mattias,

If you are reading in a paper references to Sternglass (and other well known 
charlatans) you need no scrutinity. It is one favorite play of the 
Anti-everything'so put forward thousands of psdeudoarguments to keep the 
other side busy. We should ignore them. I do not understand why such 
bluntant nonsense like this one distributed by an obviously paranoid person 
is distributed on RADSAFE. Further comments on this person will follow.

Manga hälsningar fran Österrike, det "atom fri landet".

Franz

Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
From: Mattias Lantz
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 3:32 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Environment: Ingesting radioactive materials from 
Fukushima impacts butterflies

References to Gould and Sternglass, and to Mousseau and Moller, are
warning flags. But a closer scrutiny than guilt by association should be
applied. Any takers?

Best wishes,
Mattias Lantz

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On 05/17/2014 11:51 AM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> Is this research soundly based, or flawed in some way?
>
> Roger Helbig
>
> arclight2011part2 posted: " ... consuming leaves that contain
> relatively small levels of artificial cesium released by the Fukushima
> Dai-ichi NPP has measurable effects on the butterflies' survival,
> growth and development...
> http://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/9"
> Respond to this post by replying above this line
>
> New post on nuclear-news
>
> Environment: Ingesting radioactive materials from Fukushima impacts 
> butterflies
>
> by arclight2011part2
>
> ... consuming leaves that contain relatively small levels of
> artificial cesium released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP has
> measurable effects on the butterflies' survival, growth and
> development...
>
> http://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/9275
>
> Scientific Reports
>
> May 15, 2014
>
> Butterfly larvae that ingest radioactive plant materials collected
> from the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may be
> more prone to abnormalities and early death. The findings are
> published in Scientific Reports this week.
>
> The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (NPP) in
> March 2011 led to the release of a large amount of radioactive
> materials into the environment. Previous research has indicated that
> exposure to such radioactive materials may have physiological and
> genetic effects on the Japanese pale grass blue butterfly (Zizeeria
> maha). Now Joji Otaki and colleagues examine how radiation from the
> contaminated region around Fukushima may contribute to lifetime
> ingestion of radionuclides by butterflies, and the potential
> biological consequences. The authors fed radioactive plant materials
> from locations around Fukushima to Japanese pale grass blue butterfly
> larvae from Okinawa - a Japanese prefecture about 1,000 miles south of
> Fukushima.
>
> They show that consuming leaves that contain relatively small levels
> of artificial caesium released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP has
> measurable effects on the butterflies' survival, growth and
> development. Further research is needed to explore the potential
> implications of these findings for other organisms.
>
> DOI:10.1038/srep04946 | Original article
> Article has been pulled off this link however Nature has still got the
> details on their web site. Here is the information I was able to get;
>
> The biological impacts of ingested radioactive materials on the pale
> grass blue butterfly
>
> http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140515/srep04946/full/srep04946.html
>
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> arclight2011part2 | May 17, 2014 at 1:52 am | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-hli
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