Spyke
TimeSquirrel
kbin.social

Never thought I'd hear/read the words "radioactive" and "wild boars" used that way together.

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Bernie Ecclestoned
sh.itjust.works

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

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Flying Squidreply
lemmy.world

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.

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jayrhackerreply
kbin.social

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

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Norgurreply
kbin.social

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

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magikmwreply
lemm.ee

The radioactivity has been towed from the environment.

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