bionerd23 | eating radioactive apples from chernobyl? perfectly fine! [gamma spectroscopy] @bionerd23 | Uploaded October 2014 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
qualitative and quantitative analysis of apples from chernobyl, my urine after eating those apples, german / bavarian mushrooms picked in the forest, and chernobyl moss growing near the apple tree.
if you don't have the patience to watch the entire video, here are the results:
apple from pripyat, 4km from chernobyl npp: ~39 Bq/kg Cs-137
my urine, 1 liter worth of morning urine: ~0.15 Bq/l Cs-137
german mushrooms from the forest: ~400 Bq/kg Cs-137
moss from near the apple tree in pripyat: 490000 Bq/kg Cs-137
conclusion: eating the moss - if it was edible - from near chernobyl would be insane in regard to the Cs-137 content. however, the underground networks of mushrooms also concentrate Cs-137 to a much greater extent than an apple tree does; thus, eating an apple from near the nuclear power plant gives you only roughly a tenth of the dose that the same amount of these particular mushrooms from germany would. if you were to consume german boar meat - wild boar consume those mushrooms, concentrating the Cs-137 in their muscles - you may be getting even more of a Cs-137 exposure!
thus, the apples from pripyat are the safest food source shown and analysed in this video... did you expect that?
qualitative and quantitative analysis of apples from chernobyl, my urine after eating those apples, german / bavarian mushrooms picked in the forest, and chernobyl moss growing near the apple tree.
if you don't have the patience to watch the entire video, here are the results:
apple from pripyat, 4km from chernobyl npp: ~39 Bq/kg Cs-137
my urine, 1 liter worth of morning urine: ~0.15 Bq/l Cs-137
german mushrooms from the forest: ~400 Bq/kg Cs-137
moss from near the apple tree in pripyat: 490000 Bq/kg Cs-137
conclusion: eating the moss - if it was edible - from near chernobyl would be insane in regard to the Cs-137 content. however, the underground networks of mushrooms also concentrate Cs-137 to a much greater extent than an apple tree does; thus, eating an apple from near the nuclear power plant gives you only roughly a tenth of the dose that the same amount of these particular mushrooms from germany would. if you were to consume german boar meat - wild boar consume those mushrooms, concentrating the Cs-137 in their muscles - you may be getting even more of a Cs-137 exposure!
thus, the apples from pripyat are the safest food source shown and analysed in this video... did you expect that?
![eating radioactive apples from chernobyl? perfectly fine! [gamma spectroscopy]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j6mreZ98_Ug/hqdefault.jpg "eating radioactive apples from chernobyl? perfectly fine! [gamma spectroscopy]
qualitative and quantitative analysis of apples from chernobyl, my urine after eating those apples, german / bavarian mushrooms picked in the forest, and chernobyl moss growing near the apple tree.
if you dont have the patience to watch the entire video, here are the results:
apple from pripyat, 4km from chernobyl npp: ~39 Bq/kg Cs-137
my urine, 1 liter worth of morning urine: ~0.15 Bq/l Cs-137
german mushrooms from the forest: ~400 Bq/kg Cs-137
moss from near the apple tree in pripyat: 490000 Bq/kg Cs-137
conclusion: eating the moss - if it was edible - from near chernobyl would be insane in regard to the Cs-137 content. however, the underground networks of mushrooms also concentrate Cs-137 to a much greater extent than an apple tree does; thus, eating an apple from near the nuclear power plant gives you only roughly a tenth of the dose that the same amount of these particular mushrooms from germany would. if you were to consume german boar meat - wild boar consume those mushrooms, concentrating the Cs-137 in their muscles - you may be getting even more of a Cs-137 exposure!
thus, the apples from pripyat are the safest food source shown and analysed in this video... did you expect that?")
![[UPDATED] radioactivity on video - just like inside chernobyl](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jFNvYA7731o/hqdefault.jpg "[UPDATED] radioactivity on video - just like inside chernobyl
i filmed multiple radioactive sources (see video for details) with my webcamera. i took the camera apart to expose the CCD, removing the glass that covers it - thus allowing even the alpha particles to strike the photo chip... with outstanding results!")
