Radioactive Wild Boars To Roam German Forests 'For 50 Years'

[bananas]

Source: International Business Times

Dangerously radioactive wild boar could roam Germany for another 50 years, as effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are still felt 28 years after the toxic explosion.

Tests in Germany have revealed one-in-three wild boars contained such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.

The state government of Saxony has revealed that even though the region lies 700 miles away from the Chernobyl disaster zone, wild boars in the area have been contaminated through eating contaminated mushrooms and truffles.

Four nuclear reactors exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine in 1986, releasing 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

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Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/radioactive-wild-boars-roam-german-forests-50-years-1463583

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Radioactive wild boars? There's some great horror movie potential.

I am imagining gigantic tusked swine, glowing eerily in the dark as they trample villages and devour everything in their path.

[cstanleytech]

15. Its the new self cooking bacon. nt

[warrant46]

16. I wonder if they really DO glow in the Dark

Not just in the Movies---Maybe a sequel to the famous Rodan Movie of the 1950s

[tularetom]

2. Am I the only one who sees the potential for a B-movie in this thread title?

Raidoactive wild boars roaming German forests?

Sharknado is mother goose by comparison.

[Sunlei]

21. radioactive truffles are worth $1,200 a pound?

[Trillo]

3. I've been wondering about the Nuclear Power conspiracy.

It seems it was actually a plot hatched by Vegans.

[PoutrageFatigue]

4. Should be easier to hunt them at night though...

...glowing in the dark and all that...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. You could track them with a Geiger counter.

[DFW]

5. It's not a little deal here in Germany

They like their wild boar plenty, and telling Germans the meat is taboo for 50 years is like telling people in Maine they can't eat lobster for the next 50 years.

[bananas]

9. It's really just a matter of time before it happens in the US.

The US has about 1/4 of all reactors in the world,
there have already been two INES 7 events worldwide,
it's really just a matter of time before it happens in the US,
the US is not immune to the mathematical laws of statistics.

[closeupready]

6. I believe reindeer in Sweden are still off-limits -

and wild goose and cloud berries. So this isn't so surprising to me.

[FSogol]

7. Have any geeky science students been bitten by Radioactive Boars yet?

Just wondering.

[Kaleva]

12. Yes but no super powers were passed on. The bitten do now have a corkscrew penis though.

[FSogol]

14. Oh well, with great power, comes great responsibility.

[SoapBox]

8. Ewhhhh...no wonder I've never been interested in "game" meat.

[Kaleva]

11. The fatberg under London and now the radiactive wild boars. The End Times are near!!!

[Thor_MN]

13. Schrodinger's Trap?

No quantum effects, but how about a trap that only triggers if a sensor detects radiation above a set level?

[Yavin4]

17. A wild boar is what killed King Robert Baratheon

So, this is no joke.

[christx30]

22. If that boar was radioactive

it could have ruled the North. And it would not have allied with the Dothraki.

[dembotoz]

18. reality tv show---imported texas pig hunters vs radioactive zombie nazi pigs

couple cable channels would fight over rights

if boared enuf
i would watch it

[Sunlei]

19. Thanks spawn of the soviet union!! Putin /s /s

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.

[Sunlei]

20. officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years

An area originally extending 30 kilometres (19 mi) in all directions from the plant is officially called the "zone of alienation". It is largely uninhabited, except for about 300 residents who have refused to leave. The area has largely reverted to forest, and has been overrun by wildlife because of a lack of competition with humans for space and resources. Even today, radiation levels are so high that the workers responsible for rebuilding the sarcophagus are only allowed to work five hours a day for one month before taking 15 days of rest. Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#The_Exclusion_Zone

[Vine Gatherer]

23. Ask the boar a question before shooting it

If it talks, it's radioactive. Move on.