Abstract
This topic presents the effect of radioactive pollution in river on Stenopsyche sp. (Trichoptera: Stenopsychidae) at upstream and immediately downstream of Mano dam in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Stenopsyche sp. has high productivity with bivoltine life cycle among all invertebrate species, and can be a good indicator for any kind of environmental pollutions. The total radioactive cesium is always detected from Stenopsyche sp. with the order of 4,000 Bq/kg. A cause of high radiation intensity is due to very high intensity from the fine particulate organic matter (FPOM). However, its biological half-life was only about 6 hours for non-winter generation. Thus, FPOM is mostly excreted without assimilation.
