{"id":350281,"date":"2021-10-08T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/german-mushrooms-still-contaminated-by-chernobyl-radiation\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:21:37","slug":"german-mushrooms-still-contaminated-by-chernobyl-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-mushrooms-still-contaminated-by-chernobyl-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"#German mushrooms still contaminated by Chernobyl radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#German mushrooms still contaminated by Chernobyl radiation<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Around 95% of wild mushroom samples collected in\u00a0Germany in the last six years\u00a0still\u00a0showed radioactive contamination from the 1986\u00a0Chernobyl\u00a0nuclear disaster, albeit not above legal limits, the\u00a0German\u00a0food safety regulator said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Elevated concentrations of caesium-137 and caesium-134 isotopes bearing the characteristic signature of the\u00a0Chernobyl\u00a0blast were found especially in southern\u00a0Germany, the federal office for consumer protection and food safety (BVL) said.<\/p>\n<p>However, none of the 74 samples tested exceeded the legal limit of 600 becquerels of radiation per kg.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Chernobyl\u00a0reactor, located in what is now Ukraine, spewed tonnes of nuclear waste into the atmosphere, spreading radioactivity across swathes of the continent and causing a spike in cancers in the more im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te region.<\/p>\n<p>The BVL said the radioactive material lingered in forests because their ecosystems recycled nutrients so efficiently, meaning that wild\u00a0mushrooms\u00a0will\u00a0show\u00a0contamination for much longer than other agricultural products.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mushrooms in a box are seen in a Belarussian part of the forest near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, near the village of Dzerzhinsk, south of Minsk, July 18, 2014. \" class=\"wp-image-19744638\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>While the mushrooms tested for radioactive contamination, none contained levels above the legal limits.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Concern at the long-term impact of nuclear disasters has fueled public opposition to nuclear power, and in\u00a0Germany triggered a decision, shortly after the accident at Japan\u2019s Fukushima plant in 2011, to abandon it altogether.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Elevated concentrations of caesium-137 and caesium-134 isotopes bearing the characteristic signature of the\u00a0Chernobyl\u00a0blast were found especially in southern\u00a0Germany,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Mushrooms-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[117214,77422,43905,78765],"class_list":["post-350281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-8-21","tag-chernobyl","tag-germany","tag-mushrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}