Radioactive boars eating false truffles could cause supply issues in Czech Republic
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Key points:
- Boars are eating mushrooms containing Caesium 137
- Boar meat is a delicacy in the Czech Republic
- 47 per cent of boars tested from 2014 to 2016 exceeded radioactivity limits
The Czech Republic has an unusual problem this winter with its wild boar meat the boars are radioactive.
A cold and snowy winter is forcing them to feed on false truffles, an underground mushroom common in the Sumava mountain region shared by Czechs, Austrians, Germans and wild boars.
The mushrooms can absorb high levels of the radioactive isotope Caesium 137. And three decades ago the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl released Caesium 137 that eventually drifted down on the Sumava mountains.
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The half life of Caesium 137 is 30 years that is, it takes 30 years for the radioactivity of the isotope to fall to half its original value.
Then another 30 to fall to half again, and so on. The boars could be radioactive for quite a while.
And that could cause some problems with the supply of boar meat, which is a delicacy in the Czech Republic.
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Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-23/many-wild-boars-roaming-czech-forests-are-radioactive/8295400
And fukushima salmon have made it to U.S. west coast, I read today.
dhill926
(16,373 posts)They_Live
(3,241 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)Never in my wildest dreams would I think of reading a headline like that.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Frankly I found it a little boaring.
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)Kali
(55,026 posts)melm00se
(4,997 posts)get out your rad-x and radaway
Rollo
(2,559 posts)... fake news ...
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)We need pictures
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I just read that the boars are so plentiful the state is going to poison them.
Call fast!
Bozvotros
(785 posts)In the Trump Reich.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)If so, the government of Texas would be MORE than happy to help them out of their predicament.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)Yep. Glad I was wasn't the only one who saw the comparison.
Bayard
(22,181 posts)Especially when they start mutating. And the people eating them start mutating, and........the possibilities are endless.