April 18, 2006

Babelfished

More stories from the tower of babel...

Europe later undergoes the wounds of Chernóbil 20 years. A British report assures that a 40% of the ground of the European Union present/display discharges dose of radioactive contamination.

(...) The British nourishing authorities have made this week a information public, according to which, "due to the contamination caused by the accident of Chernóbil, ewes in certain areas of the United Kingdom still contain levels of radioactivity over the safety limits. The Agency [ of nourishing standards ] maintains restrictions to the movement of the affected ewes to protect the consumers ". The report adds that cesium 137 happens of the Earth to the grass, and of the grass to the animals, and they apply to the restriction to a total of 200,000 animals and 374 farms. And in that same country, the epidemiólogo John Urquhart finishes publishing a document that relates a growth of 11% of infantile mortality in the zones in which toxic rain had more impact at the end of the eighty, as opposed to 4% in the rest of the country.

Next to the United Kingdom, the restrictions to the food traffic persist in Sweden and Finland, where they mainly affect to the reindeer and products of the forests. And in some regions of Germany, Austria, Italy, Lituania and Poland, where the wild hunting, mushrooms, berries and a species of carnivorous fish register an excessive cesium content 137. The consequences of Chernóbil were from the beginning reason for discord, partly by the opacity with which the old Soviet Union handled a catastrophe that tried to hide and to diminish until the last moment (also they hid other countries to it like France). (...)

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