Chernobyl’s radioactive boars invade Sweden

2017/10/17 13:20:29

A wild boar roams through the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Fox News article by James Rogers as published in the New York Post, Oct 10, 2017

 

Some 31 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl, a wild boar with more than 10 times the safe limit of radiation has been killed by hunters hundreds of miles away in Sweden.

 

After the 1986 catastrophe at Chernobyl in Ukraine, a cloud of radioactive particles reached parts of Sweden, leaving a frightening environmental legacy.

 

Environmental consultancy Calluna is seeing extremely worrying radiation levels in wild boars in Central Sweden. Local hunters are now wary of killing the boars for food.

 

“Hunters won’t shoot the animals,” Calluna environmental consultant Ulf Frykman told Fox News.

 

Frykman explained that, of 30 wild boar samples taken from the area surrounding the city of Gävle this year, only six were below the safe radiation limit of 1,500 becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg). Alarmingly, flesh from one wild boar that had been killed by hunters registered a massive 16,000 Bq/kg, while others were 13,000 and 11,000 Bq/kg.

 

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