{"id":121783,"date":"2021-04-21T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/american-honey-still-contains-radioactive-fallout-from-nuclear-tests-decades-ago"},"modified":"2021-04-21T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:23:31","slug":"american-honey-still-contains-radioactive-fallout-from-nuclear-tests-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/american-honey-still-contains-radioactive-fallout-from-nuclear-tests-decades-ago","title":{"rendered":"American Honey Still Contains Radioactive Fallout From Nuclear Tests Decades Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J01_iUQmQEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As expected, various samples of fruits, nuts, and other foods revealed very faint traces of cesium-137 when measured with a gamma detector, but even Kaste wasn\u2019t prepared for what happened when he ran the same test with a jar of honey from a North Carolina farmer\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can still be found in American honey, new research reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The radioactive isotope identified, cesium-137, falls below levels considered to be harmful \u2013 but the amounts measured nonetheless emphasize the lingering persistence of environmental contaminants in the nuclear age, even a half-century after international bomb tests ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a period in which we tested hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere,\u201d lead researcher Jim Kaste, an environmental geochemist at William &amp; Mary university in Williamsburg, Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wm.edu\/news\/stories\/2020\/a-radioactive-isotope-is-showing-up-in-honey.php\">explained last year<\/a> in comments about the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, various samples of fruits, nuts, and other foods revealed very faint traces of cesium-137 when measured with a gamma detector, but even Kaste wasn\u2019t prepared for what happened when he ran the same test with a jar of honey from a North Carolina farmer\u2019s market. Traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}