Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

This wild boar looks healthy but actually it is highly contaminated and banned from the marketplace. It's quite sad to see what we have done to the innocent.

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"While iodine-131 decayed long ago and the strontium and cesium are slowly becoming less potentially lethal, the hot particles of plutonium-241 scattered across the landscape are actually decaying into an even more toxic isotope, americium-241. A more powerful emitter of alpha radiation than plutonium, americium is also more soluble and can easily find its way into the food chain. Americium-241, in turn, decays into neptunium-237, another energetic alpha emitter that has a half-life of more than 2 million years. As of yet, the long-term effect of americium-241 on animals remains largely unknown".

Good read. Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay? | Magazine