Talk:Radioresistance

Nuclear power plants
I have removed the following from the first sentence of this article:

", such as around nuclear power plants, or near natural uranium mineral sites"

In general, there are not high levels of ionizing radiation around nuclear power plants.

Certain reglatory bodies would be VERY unhappy about that. :P

-unknownkadath


 * in my opinion, gray numbers for LD50 for various species are overinflated.

I.e. actual ld50/30 for goldfish is more like 7, not 20. Human LD50/60 is usually accepted as 3-4Sv. That is less than 4.5grays for sure. Egh0st (talk) 00:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Radioresistants
In my humble opinion, there should be a separate article describing the type of extremophile than one just describing the property - a non-extremophile can possess radioresistance, though at a lesser scale. I'm no biologist, so I can't work on said article besides a terrible stub, which I would think would be less preferable to just having this article. KieranTribe (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Problem of unit conversion
Rads and roentgens are often mistaken for one another in publications, including in some scientific publications (in most cases, old publications indicate the unit of radiations in "R" = roentgens, and modern readers wrongly think that "R" means "rads"). For example, in the "Lethal radiation doses" table in the current Wikipedia article it is indicated that "Drosophila melanogaster" lethal radiation dose is 640 Grays (= 64,000 rads). However, the original publication of this research mentions 64,000 roentgens, not rads (Hassett C. C., Jenkins D. W., 1952. Use of fission products for insect control. Nucleonics, Vol. 10, p. 42-46). Similarly, in the same table it is indicated that the lethal dose for "Braconidae" is 1800 Grays, while the original research for this reference mentions 180,250 roentgens (Sullivan R., Grosch D., 1953. The radiation tolerance of an adult wasp. Nucleotics, Vol. 11, p. 21-23). I haven't checked the original publications for the other species listed on this page so others radiations might have been misreported.

In addition, it is mentioned in "Sullivan R., Grosch D., 1953. The radiation tolerance of an adult wasp. Nucleotics, Vol. 11, p. 21-23" that 100% of the irradiated insects survived 180,250 roentgens. Hence, this is not the lethal dose for this species. The "Braconidae" mentioned in this article is in fact Habrobracon hebetor. The name of the species is not directly mentioned in Sullivan et al. 1953, but a careful reading of this article and of the articles cited in this publication reveals the name of the species studied to be H. hebetor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Entomologger (talk • contribs) 23:46, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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