Envir e.coli not likely altered by low environmental rad levels at Fukushima

[tolstoy]

Interesting journal article (abstract only) regarding low-level radiation's long term effect on environmental bacteria in the environs of Fukushima. Authors argue that the low levels show no upregulating mutations for fourteen common antibiotics.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=1874491100&_sort=r&_st=13&view=c&_acct=C000228598&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a28813d0da4fd399a5ea57c39f7b641d&searchtype=a

[Starkist]

Figured they'd be wasting their time with Chernobyl, not the barely-above-background levels at Fukushima for a study like that.