Enjoy the headline. I did.

  • Bernie Ecclestoned
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    1 year ago

    Why/how does it concentrate in truffles?

    Could truffles be used to extract the radioactivity from the environment?

    The paper the article references

    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c03565

    However, the release of radionuclides into the environment from nuclear accidents or nuclear weapons fallout poses potential threats to public health and societies and economic activities as some radionuclides are capable of persistently contaminating the food chain, resulting in widespread and long-term risk of radiation exposure

    Would be interested to see how that compares to coal

    • Flying SquidOP
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      71 year ago

      The cesium leeches into the soil and it’s absorbed by the truffles. They wouldn’t save us in a nuclear war. This is just where the radioactivity accumulates.

        • jayrhacker
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          71 year ago

          Truffles are pretty rare (which is why we use pigs to find them) but maybe another kind of fungi could work?

          • Norgur
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            11 year ago

            Deer truffles are not regular truffles and they aren’t that rare actually.