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I remember all the vegetables etc. thrown away / not eaten in Germany back then - especially mushrooms (not vegetables, not animals I know) if I remember correc

I remember all the vegetables etc. thrown away / not eaten in Germany back then - especially mushrooms (not vegetables, not animals I know) if I remember correctly.

chihuahua 6y ago
I remember having to drink powdered milk instead of regular milk for months afterwards. I thought it was very unpleasant. Apparently there was fallout on the grass that cows would eat, resulting in radioactive milk?
gmueckl 6y ago
As a result of the Chernobyl accident, Mushrooms and wildlife feeding on them are still showing elevated levels of radioactive Caesium-137 in the Bavarian Forest and other parts of Bavaria. These levels are still monitored closely, even though they aren't considered dangerous anymore. Still, they are beyond the levels required by food safety standards.
- Gibbon1 6y ago
  All I got to say is the Japanese are really lucky the wind wasn't blowing onshore during the meltdown.
  - gmueckl 6y ago
    It wasn't that: The Fukushima reactors didn't contain graphite moderators that started to burn. In Chernobyl, this graphite fire carried fuel and fission products high into the atmosphere.
cesaref 6y ago
Sheep farmers in Wales were still being affected by this in 2012, with testing performed on lambs and restrictions on which could be sold and which land they could be raised on due to radioactivity in the soil and hence grass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698 Just to put this in perspective, the affected part of wales in something like 1,500 miles from Chernobyl. I would guess some freak of the weather conditions caused Wales to be badly affected.
- OnlyMortal 6y ago
  It was the prevailing winds at the time. The sheep in the Yorkshire Dales were also culled for a while, as I recall.
- Mindwipe 6y ago
  Yes, they were just unlucky that's where some of the rainclouds broke.

I remember all the vegetables etc. thrown away / not eaten in Germany back then - especially mushrooms (not vegetables, not animals I know) if I remember correctly.

chihuahua 6y ago

I remember having to drink powdered milk instead of regular milk for months afterwards. I thought it was very unpleasant. Apparently there was fallout on the grass that cows would eat, resulting in radioactive milk?

gmueckl 6y ago

As a result of the Chernobyl accident, Mushrooms and wildlife feeding on them are still showing elevated levels of radioactive Caesium-137 in the Bavarian Forest and other parts of Bavaria. These levels are still monitored closely, even though they aren't considered dangerous anymore. Still, they are beyond the levels required by food safety standards.

Gibbon1 6y ago
All I got to say is the Japanese are really lucky the wind wasn't blowing onshore during the meltdown.
- gmueckl 6y ago
  It wasn't that: The Fukushima reactors didn't contain graphite moderators that started to burn. In Chernobyl, this graphite fire carried fuel and fission products high into the atmosphere.

cesaref 6y ago

Sheep farmers in Wales were still being affected by this in 2012, with testing performed on lambs and restrictions on which could be sold and which land they could be raised on due to radioactivity in the soil and hence grass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698 Just to put this in perspective, the affected part of wales in something like 1,500 miles from Chernobyl. I would guess some freak of the weather conditions caused Wales to be badly affected.

OnlyMortal 6y ago
It was the prevailing winds at the time. The sheep in the Yorkshire Dales were also culled for a while, as I recall.
Mindwipe 6y ago
Yes, they were just unlucky that's where some of the rainclouds broke.