Radioactive Boars And Mushrooms In Europe Are Grim Reminder of Chernobyl

[Snoutport]

Does this mean the Japanese radiation will be another nuclear gift that keeps on giving?

Radioactive Boars And Mushrooms In Europe Are Grim Reminder Of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/radioactive-boars-mushrooms-chernobyl_n_843498.html

BERLIN -- For a look at just how long radioactivity can hang around, consider Germany's wild boars.

A quarter century after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union carried a cloud of radiation across Europe, these animals are radioactive enough that people are urged not to eat them. And the mushrooms the pigs dine on aren't fit for consumption either.

Germany's experience shows what could await Japan – if the problems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant get any worse.

[Donnachaidh]

1. try to get a copy of "Chernobyl Heart" an HBO documentary

It's far more than mushrooms affected -- they are finding high cesium counts in homemade jams. And the children in the area also have those high levels.

This documentary will rip your heart apart. These children are still being born with massive problems due to Chernobyl. "Chernobyl Heart" is a medical condition - the children are being born with holes int their hearts. "IF" they are lucky enough to get treatment, it can be fixed.

[Snoutport]

2. :0( So many people only a dozen miles from the Japanese plants

I fear for them :0(

[Donnachaidh]

5. another documentary that probably won't make you feel better

Whit Light, Black Rain -- HBO special on the survivors of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The survivors were NOT treated well by their own people, and this has several telling their stories.

Hopefully, the attitude will change, and those going through this now will not be classed as virtual untouchables. This may be so far beyond what happened, in terms of future illnesses and death.

[Snoutport]

3. Maybe this is where pre-cooked bacon comes from!!!!

[dembotoz]

4. lol

in a sick sort of way,
but lol
wish i thought of it first

[Hydra]

6. *bwah!*

And to think we make joke movies about an irradiated future. Truth is stranger than fiction :p

[madokie]

7. It also shows what could be in store for us

after all we have a shitpot full of old reactors ourselves and some of them are less than what I'd call in good shape.

[Snoutport]

8. california just passed a 33% clean energy bill...but they have 9 years

STILL... if CA goes solar and has surplus to sell, if they make money...other states will follow!