This is silly. How are the bees going to suffer if one builds a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant has a typical area of one square mile. Does this bee have a habitat of exactly one square mile, where the proposed power plant will be? If that's so, I'm sure the power plant can be build 3 miles to the left or to the right. If the habitat is a few hundred of square miles, which is much more likely, then building a power plant will make no difference. It's not like a nuclear power plant produces smoke, or noise, or vibrations, or dumps toxic chemicals in rivers or ponds.
It looks like the specific nuclear plant and bee species haven't been named. PopSci interviewed a Purdue professor and got a few guesses from him - seems like it is likely a bumble bee species.
This is silly. How are the bees going to suffer if one builds a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant has a typical area of one square mile. Does this bee have a habitat of exactly one square mile, where the proposed power plant will be? If that's so, I'm sure the power plant can be build 3 miles to the left or to the right. If the habitat is a few hundred of square miles, which is much more likely, then building a power plant will make no difference. It's not like a nuclear power plant produces smoke, or noise, or vibrations, or dumps toxic chemicals in rivers or ponds.
It's almost like it's an excuse not to build it.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/meta-nuclear-power-bee/
It looks like the specific nuclear plant and bee species haven't been named. PopSci interviewed a Purdue professor and got a few guesses from him - seems like it is likely a bumble bee species.