Radioactive Boar in Germany

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Having been round Sellafield, I'd say we are doing all right. The UK needs another plant, and it will be run by UK guidelines. My best friend is an enviromental scientist and is mega supportive of nuclear power as the only reasonable energy source of the future, so his approval seals it for me.

Well you do know that especailly in the UK you do have other countries to worry about if you fuck up over there in certain areas. As Sellafield affects Ireland as well as the UK.

 

[Totenkopf]

That's not good. Radioactive meat is quite unhealthy.

 

[manythings]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

Having been round Sellafield, I'd say we are doing all right. The UK needs another plant, and it will be run by UK guidelines. My best friend is an enviromental scientist and is mega supportive of nuclear power as the only reasonable energy source of the future, so his approval seals it for me.

Being irish sellafield has been poisoning the see for a long, LONG time and was continually slapped with "Too dangerous to actually be allowed run" tags by EU commisioners. Though I do support the advancement of Nuclear power I only support it done seriously.

 

[Koeryn]

No awesome mutations? Damn, got my hopes up. Probably as a result of how these things are shown in the media. Still, compared to what I expected this is relatively...boaring.

If you want mutations, go to the Red Forest near Pripyat. Plants with gigantism are apparently fairly common there. I'm sure there are more, but there's not a lot of public research into what's going on there (might have something to do with areas of radiation that are still stupefyingly bad). I still want to go there some day, strikes me as way more interesting than the moon.

 

[Guest_Star]

Having been round Sellafield, I'd say we are doing all right. The UK needs another plant, and it will be run by UK guidelines. My best friend is an enviromental scientist and is mega supportive of nuclear power as the only reasonable energy source of the future, so his approval seals it for me.

Yeah, there's some debate, but with todays tech-level, nuclear plants are the only viable energy source readily available if the goal is to cut emmissions wihtout cutting energy usage.

The old Sellafield plants should be closed down tho. The number of minor accidents at the plants are fairly disturbing, with the Windscale fire the most serious one.

Which is unsurprising given that any advances in nuclear power since the 70ies go unimplemented because of hippies whineing and the people who take them for experts.

Yeah, I bet it's those pesky hippies that are blocking the use of better safety systems. The costs involved are only an excuse.

 

[LordBag]

I live in the North East of England (Yorkshire) and there are areas where farmers are still not allowed to sell milk (for human consumption) from cattle that have grazed certain areas of land due to radioactivity or whatever from Chernobyl.

I actually only got told this the other week, after watching a documentary on Chernobyl, I told my mother about it (who is a farmer) and she responded with the above. Now, not that I didn't believe her as it being part of her income she should now, but I did some searches and found quite a few articles relating to this in England so it must be pretty common all over Europe?

 

[Verlander]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

Having been round Sellafield, I'd say we are doing all right. The UK needs another plant, and it will be run by UK guidelines. My best friend is an enviromental scientist and is mega supportive of nuclear power as the only reasonable energy source of the future, so his approval seals it for me.

Being irish sellafield has been poisoning the see for a long, LONG time and was continually slapped with "Too dangerous to actually be allowed run" tags by EU commisioners. Though I do support the advancement of Nuclear power I only support it done seriously.

It hasn't been slapped with a "too dangerous to run" tag. I know about the Irish problem as well. I had to write a report on it, hence being taken around it. Simple fact is, Sellafield is still one of the top in the world. Which is definitely testament to need for all of these facilities to be improved, I agree

The Irish have full access to Sellafield, and Sellafield has openly invited Irish commissioners in to inspect the facility and to offer up suggestions for improvement. None have been given and Ireland chooses to remain officially after the closure of Sellafield, which isn't constructive, and isn't going to happen.

At the end of the day, there is no clean energy that can meet mass demand. Nuclear plants get a shit load of stick from enviromentalists, and the enviromentalists get a load of media airtime because of the popularity of anti-nuclear sentiment in the 60's/70's/late 80's. At the end of the day though, people won't accept being without energy. It sucks, but what are you going to do about it?

 

[theSovietConnection]

I live in the North East of England (Yorkshire) and there are areas where farmers are still not allowed to sell milk (for human consumption) from cattle that have grazed certain areas of land due to radioactivity or whatever from Chernobyl.

I actually only got told this the other week, after watching a documentary on Chernobyl, I told my mother about it (who is a farmer) and she responded with the above. Now, not that I didn't believe her as it being part of her income she should now, but I did some searches and found quite a few articles relating to this in England so it must be pretty common all over Europe?

In regions of Europe, yes, it is fairly common. I can't remember where offhand, though.

The biggest thing to remember about Chernobyl, though, is that the reactors safety measures had been turned off for unauthorized tests. Had the safeties still been on, there wouldn't have been an accident. I may be mistaken on this, but I believe the RMBK reactors were either originally intended to be used to produce nuclear weapons, or were based on a weapons production reactor, meaning there weren't intended to produce electricity in the first place.

 

[LordBag]

I live in the North East of England (Yorkshire) and there are areas where farmers are still not allowed to sell milk (for human consumption) from cattle that have grazed certain areas of land due to radioactivity or whatever from Chernobyl.

I actually only got told this the other week, after watching a documentary on Chernobyl, I told my mother about it (who is a farmer) and she responded with the above. Now, not that I didn't believe her as it being part of her income she should now, but I did some searches and found quite a few articles relating to this in England so it must be pretty common all over Europe?

In regions of Europe, yes, it is fairly common. I can't remember where offhand, though. The biggest thing to remember about Chernobyl, though, is that the reactors safety measures had been turned off for unauthorized tests. Had the safeties still been on, there wouldn't have been an accident. I may be mistaken on this, but I believe the RMBK reactors were either originally intended to be used to produce nuclear weapons, or were based on a weapons production reactor, meaning there weren't intended to produce electricity in the first place.

I wasn't really suggesting a moral stance either for or against tbh, just offering a bit of quite interesting information My guess would be that it is still (more) detectable in lands at a higher altitude.

 

[manythings]

Being irish sellafield has been poisoning the see for a long, LONG time and was continually slapped with "Too dangerous to actually be allowed run" tags by EU commisioners. Though I do support the advancement of Nuclear power I only support it done seriously.

It hasn't been slapped with a "too dangerous to run" tag. I know about the Irish problem as well. I had to write a report on it, hence being taken around it. Simple fact is, Sellafield is still one of the top in the world. Which is definitely testament to need for all of these facilities to be improved, I agree

The Irish have full access to Sellafield, and Sellafield has openly invited Irish commissioners in to inspect the facility and to offer up suggestions for improvement. None have been given and Ireland chooses to remain officially after the closure of Sellafield, which isn't constructive, and isn't going to happen.

At the end of the day, there is no clean energy that can meet mass demand. Nuclear plants get a shit load of stick from enviromentalists, and the enviromentalists get a load of media airtime because of the popularity of anti-nuclear sentiment in the 60's/70's/late 80's. At the end of the day though, people won't accept being without energy. It sucks, but what are you going to do about it?

Make a reactor that runs on environmentalists.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I live in the North East of England (Yorkshire) and there are areas where farmers are still not allowed to sell milk (for human consumption) from cattle that have grazed certain areas of land due to radioactivity or whatever from Chernobyl.

I actually only got told this the other week, after watching a documentary on Chernobyl, I told my mother about it (who is a farmer) and she responded with the above. Now, not that I didn't believe her as it being part of her income she should now, but I did some searches and found quite a few articles relating to this in England so it must be pretty common all over Europe?

In regions of Europe, yes, it is fairly common. I can't remember where offhand, though. The biggest thing to remember about Chernobyl, though, is that the reactors safety measures had been turned off for unauthorized tests. Had the safeties still been on, there wouldn't have been an accident. I may be mistaken on this, but I believe the RMBK reactors were either originally intended to be used to produce nuclear weapons, or were based on a weapons production reactor, meaning there weren't intended to produce electricity in the first place.

I wasn't really suggesting a moral stance either for or against tbh, just offering a bit of quite interesting information My guess would be that it is still (more) detectable in lands at a higher altitude.

Oh, my bad on that. Thought I hit enter, everything after the bit about areas in Europe still being affected was just generally for the topic.

 

[Dogstile]

boars like to feast on such as corn or rape

Forgive me for being silly, but WHUT?

 

[LordBag]

boars like to feast on such as corn or rape

Forgive me for being silly, but WHUT?

Used for animal feed and the oil that comes from it for human consumption and possibly biodiesel.

 

[The Stonker]

Huh I can see the future now...

NUCLEAR POWERED KANGAROOS!

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I thought the heading said Radioactive bear so I was expecting a story about wide-scale destruction, death and other horrible things. It's cool to see that the animals are adapting to the irradiated lands though. Did it glow?

 

[Tiny116]

They do this with Sheep in some parts of Wales as well apparently something to do with the fallout from either Hiroshima or Chernobyl.

 

[Max_imus]

In Germany, boar eats you!

Forgive me, that whole analogy with S.T.A.L.K.E.R made me do it.....

Quite disturbing, yes. Especially when thinking that I like eating boar, my neighbour's a hunter....

 

[VanityGirl]

why did he check it with a geiger counter?

Because the article stated that Germany has been having a problem with radioactive boars. Germany has set up 12 stations to check the meat.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

Looks like it's time for me to start writing another Probing The Inaccuracies article. Nuclear power is one of the very safest forms of electrical production there is; less people have died in the entire history of nuclear power as a direct result of nuclear accidents than die every year from particulate air poisoning from coal-fired power plants. The RBMK reactors used in Chernobyl were hideously out-of-date, and even then, the disaster occurred because of gross human error.

this. Most if not all dedicated nucleaur plants pretty much now can't have an accident without human intervention. They overheat - they automatically insert the control rods further.They get left alone for a month - they shut themselves down.

 

[Broken Orange]

I just heard about these events from my Government class. They apparently terrorize grocery stores and people are getting paid to hunt them, as said in the article.