Nuclear weapons partly responsible for radioactive wild boars (gizmodo.com)
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 14:16
https://lemmy.world/post/4137314

Enjoy the headline. I did.

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 30 Aug 2023 14:17 next collapse

Bebop from TMNT is real?!

Infinitus@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 14:42 next collapse

Fallout anyone?

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 2023 17:45 collapse

V.A.T.S. SFX

bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 2023 15:11 next collapse

Why/how does it concentrate in truffles?

Could truffles be used to extract the radioactivity from the environment?

The paper the article references

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c03565

However, the release of radionuclides into the environment from nuclear accidents or nuclear weapons fallout poses potential threats to public health and societies and economic activities as some radionuclides are capable of persistently contaminating the food chain, resulting in widespread and long-term risk of radiation exposure

Would be interested to see how that compares to coal

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 15:12 next collapse

The cesium leeches into the soil and it’s absorbed by the truffles. They wouldn’t save us in a nuclear war. This is just where the radioactivity accumulates.

bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 2023 15:14 collapse

Could it aid in clear up in places like Ukraine and Japan?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 15:19 next collapse

I doubt it, but this is not my area of expertise.

jayrhacker@kbin.social on 30 Aug 2023 16:04 collapse

Truffles are pretty rare (which is why we use pigs to find them) but maybe another kind of fungi could work?

magikmw@lemm.ee on 30 Aug 2023 20:18 collapse

The radioactivity has been towed from the environment.

hellfire103@sopuli.xyz on 30 Aug 2023 15:24 next collapse

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social on 30 Aug 2023 15:41 next collapse

Never thought I'd hear/read the words "radioactive" and "wild boars" used that way together.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 30 Aug 2023 16:30 next collapse

Oh uh, I hope Cody Showdy doesn’t find out about it.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 16:32 next collapse

Cody’s gonna freak.

Eldritch@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 2023 14:23 collapse

Cody Johnston Intensifies

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee on 30 Aug 2023 17:50 next collapse

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gnygnygny@lemm.ee on 01 Sep 2023 12:44 next collapse

It reminds me the toxic pigs of Fukushima documentary vice.com/…/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-radioactive…

echodot@feddit.uk on 01 Sep 2023 15:03 collapse

Partly?