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BERLIN – It was a big shot. A big hog. And a big disappointment.
When Georg van Bebber hauled back his wild boar from Ebersberg forest near Munich after a day of hunting, he was exhilarated about his impressive prey.
But before he could take it home, a Geiger counter showed a problem: The boar's meat was radioactive to an extent considered potentially dangerous for consumption. It needed to be thrown out and burnt.
"I really would have liked to have this boar," van Bebber said when he recounted the incident in a telephone interview from Bavaria.
Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with excessive levels of radioactivity. In fact, the numbers are higher than ever before.
The total compensation the German government paid last year for the discarded contaminated meat shot up to a record sum of euro425,000 (about $558,000), from only about euro25,000 ten years ago, according to the Federal Environment Ministry in Berlin. end quote.
So, here we are 24 years after Chernobyl and wild Boars in Bavaria are still too radioactive to eat. When people talk about wanting more nuclear power in the U.S. they should think about this.
Also, why would you burn something radioactive? One of the worst ways to be exposed to radiation is through your lungs. One radioactive dust particle that lodges in your lungs can be fatal if it stays there for 20 or more years. So, from my point of view burying it about 6 feet deep seems like a better outcome as long as your dog or other creature doesn't dig it up and eat it and spread it further. I guess once radioactivity is present it could go anywhere anywhen.
Later:
My son, who will be a nurse in December, told me that you have to burn a radioactive carcass of whatever or whoever because if you don't even worms will spread the radioactive carcass even if you put it underground. He said that you absolutely don't want to breathe ANY of the smoke or ash of the carcass or you could presently or eventually be in trouble. So, if people burn the carcass they have to find a way to prevent the spread of ANY of the ash to other humans and animals, fish, birds or insects. If they don't do this then the radioactivity in some form will eventually find it's way back to humans as food or into their lungs in some form of dust or radioactive ash.
When Georg van Bebber hauled back his wild boar from Ebersberg forest near Munich after a day of hunting, he was exhilarated about his impressive prey.
But before he could take it home, a Geiger counter showed a problem: The boar's meat was radioactive to an extent considered potentially dangerous for consumption. It needed to be thrown out and burnt.
"I really would have liked to have this boar," van Bebber said when he recounted the incident in a telephone interview from Bavaria.
Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with excessive levels of radioactivity. In fact, the numbers are higher than ever before.
The total compensation the German government paid last year for the discarded contaminated meat shot up to a record sum of euro425,000 (about $558,000), from only about euro25,000 ten years ago, according to the Federal Environment Ministry in Berlin. end quote.
So, here we are 24 years after Chernobyl and wild Boars in Bavaria are still too radioactive to eat. When people talk about wanting more nuclear power in the U.S. they should think about this.
Also, why would you burn something radioactive? One of the worst ways to be exposed to radiation is through your lungs. One radioactive dust particle that lodges in your lungs can be fatal if it stays there for 20 or more years. So, from my point of view burying it about 6 feet deep seems like a better outcome as long as your dog or other creature doesn't dig it up and eat it and spread it further. I guess once radioactivity is present it could go anywhere anywhen.
Later:
My son, who will be a nurse in December, told me that you have to burn a radioactive carcass of whatever or whoever because if you don't even worms will spread the radioactive carcass even if you put it underground. He said that you absolutely don't want to breathe ANY of the smoke or ash of the carcass or you could presently or eventually be in trouble. So, if people burn the carcass they have to find a way to prevent the spread of ANY of the ash to other humans and animals, fish, birds or insects. If they don't do this then the radioactivity in some form will eventually find it's way back to humans as food or into their lungs in some form of dust or radioactive ash.
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