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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5341/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='German Mushrooms Still Contain Radiation Linked to Chernobyl Disaster' data-article-id='5931'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13604'>Most wild mushrooms collected in Germany in recent years still showed radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. </span> <span data-start-time='13604' data-end-time='26313'>But the country’s food safety agency says most samples did not contain radiation levels above legal limits.</span> <span data-start-time='26313' data-end-time='36938'>In 1986, a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power center exploded and caught fire. </span> <span data-start-time='36938' data-end-time='46333'>The accident -- the world’s worst nuclear disaster -- sent huge amounts of radiation into the air. </span> <span data-start-time='46333' data-end-time='53688'>It sent radioactive particles across large parts of Europe.</span> <span data-start-time='53688' data-end-time='67229'>Investigators at Germany’s Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, or BVL, tested many different kinds of mushrooms. </span> <span data-start-time='67229' data-end-time='78708'>They measured levels of two kinds of radioactive isotopes -- cesium-137 and cesium-134. </span> <span data-start-time='78708' data-end-time='86875'>The isotopes are byproducts of the production process in nuclear reactors.</span> <span data-start-time='86875' data-end-time='103479'>Of the mushrooms tested that are marketed to humans, none contained levels above the legal limit of 600 becquerels of radiation per kilogram, the BVL reported. </span> <span data-start-time='103479' data-end-time='108833'>A becquerel is a unit of radioactive measurement.</span> <span data-start-time='108833' data-end-time='131563'>Some additional mushrooms that grow in the wild were tested and shown to have levels above 1,000 becquerels of cesium-137 radiation per kilogram in the last three years, the country’s Office for Radiation Protection reports. </span> <span data-start-time='131563' data-end-time='143021'>It urged individuals seeking to limit radiation exposure not to self-pick wild mushrooms in affected areas.</span> <span data-start-time='143021' data-end-time='166583'>The agency noted, however, that even if a person ate 200 grams of mushrooms with 3,000 becquerels of cesium-137 per kilogram, this would be about equal to the radiation exposure received during a flight from Germany to Spain.</span> <span data-start-time='166583' data-end-time='180667'>Higher radioactivity levels in mushrooms were found in southern Germany, especially in Southern Bavaria and the Bavarian Forest, the BVL said.</span> <span data-start-time='180667' data-end-time='193979'>Officials said the radioactive material stays in forests so long because those environments recycle nutrients very effectively. </span> <span data-start-time='193979' data-end-time='204458'>This means that wild mushrooms show contamination levels for much longer periods than other agricultural products.</span> <span data-start-time='204458' data-end-time='215625'>Concern about the long-term effects of nuclear disasters has fueled public opposition to nuclear power in Germany. </span> <span data-start-time='215625' data-end-time='229167'>The country decided to halt its nuclear power industry in 2011, shortly after the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power center.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div 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