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fundatus | 3 months ago

To quote from the article I linked to:

> In the last years values of up to several thousand becquerel per kilogram were measured in wild game and certain edible mushrooms. In Germany it is not permitted to market food with more than 600 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram.

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chickenbig|3 months ago

Another quote from the article is

> If wild game or wild growing mushrooms are consumed in usual amounts, the additional radiation exposure is comparatively low.

> The consumption of 200 grams of mushrooms with 1,000 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram results in an exposure of 0.0025 millisievert.

fundatus|3 months ago

The numbers and actual risks don't matter to change regular people's feelings about a technology. All they know is that there was actual nuclear fallout and now the mushrooms in their forests are radioactive.