Friday, August 20, 2010

Contaminated Truffles Irradiating Wild Boars

wild boar closeup photo
Image credit: Subharnab/Flickr
When Chernobyl's reactor number four ignited in 1986, it sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the air that eventually spread across Europe. One place it settled was Germany. Now, nearly a quarter century later, that fallout is reappearing in wild boars with alarming frequency.

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