First of all, it makes a lot of difference, whether you are exposed to external radiation, or eating contaminated food. Especially if, as for Iodine, the elemen

First of all, it makes a lot of difference, whether you are exposed to external radiation, or eating contaminated food. Especially if, as for Iodine, the elements are accumulated in certain organs. Not sure how much this is the case here. Anyway, I have not claimed, that occasional eating of mushrooms is going to kill you. Still, the doses are high enough to warrant an official warning not too often to eat these mushrooms (you have a dental X-ray not every day either), and enough animals are contaminated high enough to be destroyed. Overall, the life in Bavaria is not impacted by the radiation. But I find it startling, that over a thousand kilometers away from Chernobyl, the Bavarian landscape is contaminated and will be for decades. It shows me, that we do not want to risk a reoccurrence of such events.