{"id":22820,"date":"2016-02-26T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-happily-surprised-to-find-truffles-free-of-chernobyl-radiation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:44","slug":"scientists-happily-surprised-to-find-truffles-free-of-chernobyl-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-happily-surprised-to-find-truffles-free-of-chernobyl-radiation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists happily surprised to find truffles free of Chernobyl radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-happily-surprised-to-find-truffles-free-of-chernobyl-radiation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will make friends Vladimir and Marina happy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Mushrooms and game meat in European regions where Chernobyl fallout was most intense still have excess radiation, but Burgundy truffles get the green light; foodies rejoice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 30 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Swept along by winds and settled by heavy rains, radioactive particles, especially caesium-137 (137Cs), polluted large stretches of the European continent. And we all know the problem with radioactive things, they\u2019ve got lasting power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the continent\u2019s topsoil layers are still radioactively contaminated,\u201d says Ulf B\u00fcntgen, Head of the Dendroecology Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) and lead author of a new study measuring something dear to a foodie\u2019s heart: the contamination level of Burgundy truffles (<em>Tuber aestivum<\/em>), like those pictured below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-food\/scientists-happily-surprised-find-truffles-free-chernobyl-radiation.html\">http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-food\/scientists-happily-surp...ation.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will make friends Vladimir and Marina happy. Mushrooms and game meat in European regions where Chernobyl fallout was most intense still have excess radiation, but Burgundy truffles get the green light; foodies rejoice. It\u2019s been 30 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68229,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions\/68229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}