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In as we speak’s Huge Story Podcast, in lots of areas of Europe, wild boars roam the panorama. Additionally, they’re radioactive. For a very long time, it was assumed the Chernobyl catastrophe was the trigger, and that’s nonetheless partly true. However the actual reply goes again even additional and presents us a glimpse of how the by-products of nuclear expertise can lay dormant for many years, solely detected in probably the most seen a part of a system we’re nonetheless studying to grasp.
Becky Ferreira, a science author and common contributor at Motherboard, is on as we speak’s episode.
“I believe it was a extremely large shock as a result of no person had actually thought of that the weapons testing would nonetheless be round in that amount,” mentioned Ferreira.
That is the wild boar paradox, and that is what it may educate us about nuclear applied sciences previous, current and future.
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