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Another quote from the article is

> If wild game or wild growing mushrooms are consumed in usual amounts, the additional radiation exposure is comparatively low.

> The consumption of 200 grams of mushrooms with 1,000 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram results in an exposure of 0.0025 millisievert.





The numbers and actual risks don't matter to change regular people's feelings about a technology. All they know is that there was actual nuclear fallout and now the mushrooms in their forests are radioactive.



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