Wild boars containing radioactive isotopes are not safe to eat, with this radioactivity resulting from nuclear weapons testing and nuclear disasters.
were carried out in the latter half of the 1900s: the United States carried out 1,054, most of which were in Nevada, with several hundred in the ocean and other states. The then-Soviet Union carried out 715 tests, mostly in now-Kazahkstan, while France tested weapons in the Saharah and atolls in the Pacific, and the United Kingdom did some tests in Australia. Many of these tests were atmospheric, meaning that the bomb was detonated above the ground and within the atmosphere.
Stock image of a wild boar in a German forest. Some of the wild boars in central Europe are so radioactive that they are dangerous to eat."However, unlike most forest species, which initially also exhibited high 137Cs contamination in their bodies followed by a decline with time , 137Cs levels in wild boars have not shown a significant decline trend since 1986," the authors wrote.
"A nuclear explosion hence yields a relatively high 135Cs/137Cs ratio, whereas a reactor yields a low ratio," they explain in the paper. "Contribution [of weapons-137Cs] as a pollutant of central Europe has generally been regarded as negligible compared to that of Chernobyl, our work provides the forensic evidence showing that this underestimated 137Cs legacy can accumulate in certain environmental media along with more recent reactor-137Cs releases," the authors wrote.
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