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Locals continues to eat radioactive food after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests

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Risk is in what they eat, what they drink, the forests surrounding them and it won't go away so easily.

Economic crises shakened  Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, area, which contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Greenpeace said, people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels.

       As according to the tests conducted, overall contamination done from key isotopes such as caesium-137 and strontium-90 has fallen somewhat but not exactly.

People in affected areas are still coming into daily contact with dangerously high levels of radiation from the April 1986 explosion at the nuclear plant that sent a plume of radioactive fallout across large swathes of Europe.

      Greenpeace report, entitled “Nuclear Scars: The Lasting legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima”  states that it is not the matter what they eat and what they drink, it is also present in the wood they use for construction and burning to keep them warm.

The Greenpeace report comprised of-

In respect of Fund:

The various research report said that Ukraine “no longer has sufficient funds to finance the programmes needed to properly protect the public – exposed to the contaminated area”.

In respect of food grains:

The report found that in  case of  grain, radiation levels in the contaminated areas where an estimated 5 million people live had actually increased.

“And just as this contamination will be with them for decades to come, so will be the related impacts on their health. Thousands of children, even those born 30 years after Chernobyl, still have to drink radioactively contaminated milk.”

In respect of forests:

Greenpeace said it had also conducted tests in areas contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan where an earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear plant and caused a substantial losses.

     As with Chernobyl, forests around the accident site were found to have become repositories of radioactive contamination that could not be cleaned up.

In respect of Danger for population:

The report said that they will pose a risk to the population for decades or even centuries to comeand the long-term exposure to radiation can lead to severe illnesses or can increase the cancer rate.

 

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