Chernobyl Nuclear Fallout Is Still In Our Food

Where you can get the Radiacode device:

[HiFiGuy]

6:21: “So these are really cool to have around.”

A radiation detector, not a capsule of Caesium, that is.

[fungoidal]

Mushrooms are great bio-accumulators of not even just Cesium-137, but multiple different kinds of elements; Pleurotus ostreatus, for example, is capable of concentrating cadmium within it's basidiocarps. On the topic of Cesium-137, however, Gomphidius glutinosus is probably one of, if not the best bio-accumulator of Cesium-137, capable of concentrating it up to 10, 000x over normal background levels within their basidiocarp. On the topic of radioactivity, there are also the radiotrophic molds that exist and thrive within the environment of Chernobyl. Fungi are hella cool.

[SashaXXY]

I was travelling with my dad by train close Moscow a couple of weeks after the plant blew up. I remember the train made a 15 minute stop or something, and we went out to get some air. Some people were selling vegetables near the station and an old lady was selling mushrooms. And the mushrooms looked great. I used to pick wild mushrooms as a kid, so I knew good mushrooms when I saw them. Then a couple of gov't agents showed up -- not cops but they had some kind of government ID and had authority. They confiscated her mushrooms. And she was crying -- she'd spent all morning collecting them. I was just a kid so all of this flew over my head. Of course, when I grew up I learned that mushrooms had soaked up and concentrated the dilute fallout that reached Moscow. And also, that the mushrooms looked so good because the radiation had killed off the parasites.

[Ilix]

I can’t help but notice the lack of radiation testing for the Cook Unity foods… XD

[magnusz]

North of Sweden, has mushrooms, berries and wild boar high content of caesium.

[svarog]

Im from Poland, I pick wild mushrooms since i was a child. Im pretty sure i eat about 10kg to 15kg of various mushrooms a year, and it is propably the same for the rest of my family, so far there has been no traces af any radiation related medical conditions in my family. Which should be obvious since radiation levels from these mushrooms are insignificant.

[Luftbubblan]

I remember that as a kid in Sweden i wasn't allowed to play in the sandbox for a while due to this. There also was / is radiation in our forests here.

[Typical.Anomaly]

My homie got me some _seriously nuclear_ mushrooms last summer.
I could see the atomic structures in everything.

[VeniceInventors]

I've been monitoring background radiation levels since the Chernobyl accident, and I still learned something new. I had no idea the phone camera could be used to detect high-energy particles, so thank you for that. I'm going to try it with an Americium pellet from a smoke detector.

[unvergebeneid]

Not sure if i would call Chernobyl a "small radiation leak" but point taken 😄

[janofb]

Ironic that a nuclear explosion, full of radiation, produces a mushroom cloud.

[scotland]

I went to Chernobyl in 2014. The guide told us the same truth for moss. We put our Geiger counters up to the moss and they spiked. Fun fact - the exit points of the Chernobyl area was a mandatory "beep down" of your clothes/bags. If they detected radioactive particles you'd have to ditch them. The guide joked that the guards used fake detectors to make "hot chicks take their pants off". We all laughed "sort of" but that's messed up!

[tzimacz]

Mushroom picking is very popular in Czechia, Slovakia and Poland – despite that, life expectancy has been steadily rising in all of these countries and is comparable to developed countries that weren't as exposed to Chernobyl's fallout and where mushroom picking isn't nearly as popular.

[FMFvideos]

I once ate a banana that had so much bananesium, it made me bananed for a week.

[clearmind]

Awesome. I'm making porcini mushroom risotto tonight. Maybe I'll glow write along with the northern lights tonight.

[Texasyears]

Couple of interesting notes:
1. Any steel that was manufactured after WW2 accumulated a small amount of radioactive fallout from the atmospheric atomic bomb testing.. There are some activities that are affected by even that small amount of contamination.
The concentration of radioactive particles, from small organisms to larger, also happens with pesticides and lead (lead pellets from expended shotgun shells get into the digestive tract of birds. The birds are then eaten by raptors (eagles, hawks, condors) which then result in raptor egg shells that are easily broken resulting in fewer chicks being born resulting in a decline in the population of raptors.

[schmitzbeats]

A big contributer to the contamination was that the RBMK reactors are graphite moderated, this caught fire. And burned for a few days. Like a giant coal fire around the nuclear fuel. The water/zirkonium reaction into hydrogen, and subsequent explosions happened in Fukushima too, but not nearly as big of an area was contaminated.

[markmuller]

Radioactive wild boars are a real thing where I live in southern Switzerland (also known as Fallout 5 😅) and that's because they eat a lot of mushrooms assimilating a lot of Chernobyl radioactive material

[CZpersi]

In my country, Czechia, gamekeepers used to check the meat of slain hogs (wild pigs) with a geiger counter, because the forest animals eat lots of mushrooms and the radioactive elements may concentrate in their bodies above the safe levels.

[AlexParkerEmcee]

perfect drop for my commute to work thanks bro💪🏾