Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/pl_arts_mutantbugs
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power stations don’t leak enough radiation to create malformed organisms. But in some locations, Hesse-Honegger discovered mutations — curtailed feelers, misshapen legs, asymmetrical wings — in as many as 30 percent of the bugs she gathered. That’s 10 times the overall rate of about 3 percent for insects found in the wild.
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