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So the trigger level means that you need to eat 30kg/y of that animal to get the equivalent to "natural" exposure. That's not an unsignificant quantity of meat, which suggests that the threshhold is pretty low, which is fine, but does makes it kind of irresponsible to talk about the "long lasting effects" of Chernobyl when only the "odd animal" ever gets to be above such a lowish level in terms of practical consequences.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 05:21:18 AM EST
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Sounds like a pretty long lasting effect for the farmers involved.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 05:29:04 AM EST
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Indeed the second half of the Independent article seems to be focused on the farmers' woes.

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by DoDo on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:15:40 AM EST
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Supplementing Metatone's point, I note that what transpired from the older articles is that farmers have to apply this practice of moving (all) animals to low-lying fields so that they excrete the Caesium, which reduces the loss due to culled animals that have to be dumped to the "odd animal", but involves extra costs (transport, rent of another field).

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by DoDo on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:37:37 AM EST
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