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Kon5oleyesterday at 10:24 AM1 replyview on HN

I can give some scattered examples:

Norway 2025: https://www.dsa.no/en/radioactivity-in-food-and-environment/...

"Every year, sheep herds in selected municipalities must be brought down onto cultivated land and given clean feed for a certain number of weeks before they can be slaughtered, in order to bring the levels in the meat down below the maximum permitted level."

Germany 2026, 3000 boar at 100-200 euros compensation each:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fast-3000-verstrahlte-wildsch...

Scotland was done after "only" 25 years:

https://robedwards53.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/25-years-on-ch...

“It has taken nearly 25 years for the contamination of Scottish soils to decay to officially safe levels – and we're 1,400 miles away,”

Northern norway - scotland - bavaria - ukraine, that's about half the continental US affected for decades, so it's a fair comparison wouldn't you agree?


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don_estebanyesterday at 5:24 PM

It would be interesting to do a survey in Eastern Europe countries of the effect of eating 'too hot to eat' stuff for a generation.

Because, I can assure you, nothing of that kind has ever been done here. And we are much, much, closer.

In fact, I do remember that summer being known for extreme abundance of wild mushrooms. People happily picked them.

My country has its share of public health problems, but I am not aware of an obvious radioactivity-induced signal.

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