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Chernobyl disaster's radioactive effect seen in mushrooms in Germany
short by Aishwarya Awasthi / on Saturday, 9 October, 2021
German food and safety regulator has said around 95% of wild mushroom samples collected in Germany in the last six years still showed radioactive contamination from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Elevated concentrations of caesium-137 and caesium-134 isotopes bearing the characteristic signature of the Chernobyl blast were found. However, none of the samples tested exceeded the legal limit.