Radioactive Wild Boar Roam Central Europe

According to a recent study published in the ACS's Environmental Science and Technology journal, radioactive wild boar are roaming Central Europe as a result of nuclear blasts from the mid-twentieth century.

Cesium-soaked truffles from post-World War II weapons tests in Central Europe, as well as the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, have resulted in an unexpected result: radioactive wild boar roaming forests and fields, rendering them unsafe for human consumption.

According to a recen...

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