It is worth reading for anyone who is interested in the way that people who have an agenda can lie with statistics. For example, a single butterfly with deformed wings is described as a 20% rate of mutation because there were only 5 butterflies in that particular sample.

The researchers made no attempt to isolate radiation from other potential causes of mutations or deformities. Please remember those videos that we all saw of the way that the tsunami overturned everything in its path and then remember that industrial societies are rife with petroleum, pesticides, paints, solvents, and other materials that are potentially mutagenic if indiscriminately released from their containers and spread around the landscape by the forces of a huge wave of salt water.

The publisher of this paper, though hiding under the URL of “nature.com”, is Scientific Reports.
http://www.nature.com/srep/about/index.html

They have a rapid turnaround publishing model that calls a paper “peer reviewed” after being reviewed by ONE reviewer. The advantageous part of their model is that Scientific Reports publishes the entire work in an accessible location so we can all see the good, the bad and the ugly and determine the validity – or lack of validity in the published work. It is incumbent upon skeptical readers to do their homework and not just trust the headlines sent out by the publicists who are seeking to make a big splash.

Nuclear energy’s competitors in the global energy market have a strong monetary motive for spreading as much fear, uncertainty and doubt as they can. That effort is the only thing that keeps nuclear energy from forcing them to accept a smaller market share and lower prices for their more dangerous and less capable products – coal, oil, natural gas, wind, solar, and hydro.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/worryingly

If ignorance is bliss, then Mitt must be in a state of rapture.

FYI: For a look at daily life in a US nuclear plant and what a bad day might be like, my novel “Rad Decision” covers that ground from an insider’s perspective. The book is free online (no advertisements or sponsors) – just Google the title or see my website. As a bonus, the plant design and bad day resemble Fukushima. Readers seem to like it, judging from their comments.