>>4985 >contamination is higher in bavaria than here! Yes, you were lucky though you're far closer. It depends where the contaminated rain fell back then. South Bavaria and the alps were severely contaminated as you see.
> is it actually relevant anywhere outside the exclusion zone after almost 40 years? 137Cs has a half life of 30 years so more than half of it is gone. It's not a health concern unless you exclusively live off mushrooms and boar meat but continues to be a legal problem in Germany. Especially boars which accumulate Cs by eating mushrooms which already accumulated it. So quite a lot of hunted boar meat can't be sold and must be destroyed beause it exceeds the extremely tight radiation levels. But it's not dabgerous. Cs doesn't bioacummulate like Iodine. That was the main health concern after Chernobyl but 131I only has a half-life of 8d so it's long gone.
>you been there right Alice? Yes, we've been in Chernobyl exclusion zone and NPP twice for a week each in 2015 and 2016. Saw the reactor up close before it was sealed under the new safe confinement. We had planned to go again after the pandemic in 2022 but you know, it turned into a war-zone. I wonder if we'll ever be able to go there again. It's one of the most awesome places I've ever been. Even there surface radiation is very moderate nowadays except right in front of the destroyed reactor and a few hotspots. But I wouldn't eat any mushrooms from the area.
