If nuclear power is safe and clean, why do bugs around some nuclear plants mutate at ten times the rate of bugs elsewhere. And that's not ten times a very small fraction. The overall rate is three percent, but one scientific illustrator found the mutation rate can be 30 percent around nuclear plants.
See "Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants", Wired, 2010-04-19
Could these be another form of canaries in the mine?
See also "Nuclear weapons and climate change - is there a connection?"
