UK sheep above radioactive safety limits due to Chernobyl

[struggle4progress]

By Ahmed ElAmin

12/04/2006 - The radioactive fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident means sheep at 374 farms in the UK are still restricted from entering the food chain.

The UK's food regulator yesterday published three reports showing that sheep at the farms in Cumbria, Scotland and Wales still contain levels of radioactivity above safety limits. <snip>

In 1986, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what is now the Ukraine released large quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere. Some of the radioactivity, predominantly radiocaesium-137, was deposited in some upland areas of the UK, where sheep farming is the primary land-use.

Due to the particular chemical and physical properties of the peaty soil types present in the areas, the radiocaesium is still able to pass easily from soil to grass. The radiocaesium then accumulates in the sheep that feeds on the grass. <snip>

http://www.meatprocess.com/news/ng.asp?n=67011-fsa-chernobyl-radioactivity

[Massacure]

1. Raise the safe limit.

Problem solved. :sarcasm:

[DELUSIONAL]

2. In Wales some humans are developing cancers

which appear to be related to the Chernobyl accident.

There are probably links -- but I know some of the cancer victims -- and this seems to be well known in England.

Not only the sheep but also humans. (Of course humans don't enter the food chain . . . yet. It was only in that Sci Fi movie.)

[Gloria]

3. I was in London when Chernobly blew--scheduled to go to

Moscow and Leningrad the following week. Luckily, the trip was canceled by the Russia tourist board, which at the time, controlled all travel to Russia down to the last minute.

I left a few week later. I guess I'm radioactive. Haven't given it much thought....

[mom cat]

4. Not to mention all the new radiation that followed Shock and Awe

and all the DU munitions. Blair is colluding with the irradiation of his own people, sheeple and sheep.