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Nuclear weapons partly responsible for radioactive wild boars (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid to c/technology
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Enjoy the headline. I did.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why/how does it concentrate in truffles?

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

The paper the article references

https://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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deer truffles are not regular truffles and they aren't that rare actually.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The radioactivity has been towed from the environment.