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Reindeer are strangely radioactive 30 years after Chernobyl
Bonds 25:
Who fu*king eats Reindeer anyways?
For the record......Reindeer are pro-Chernobyl, as is all the other wild life.
GLW:
--- Quote from: OldHP on Mar 01, 2016, 11:40 ---It wasn't too many years ago (OK! 30'ish) when a neighbor and I would hunt deer on the lower portion of SRR. If you got one you had to stop on the way out and turn over the internals. Just for grins and giggles I brought a pancake with me one week and found highly elevated count rates from the heart down, before I stopped to turn over the internals. (Never got the heart of a SRR deer)!
O:) :old: [beer]
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So, does SRS still contract out feral & wild hog culling?
That was one of the better "nuclear" contracts to dabble in once upon a time,....
I never worked that contract, the earnings potential was about 20% below my minimum threshold,....
And I have not mused about it for years until I saw your post,....
BUT, for the semi-retired, ..........maybe?!?!
Rerun:
--- Quote from: OldHP on Mar 01, 2016, 11:40 ---It wasn't too many years ago (OK! 30'ish) when a neighbor and I would hunt deer on the lower portion of SRR. If you got one you had to stop on the way out and turn over the internals. Just for grins and giggles I brought a pancake with me one week and found highly elevated count rates from the heart down, before I stopped to turn over the internals. (Never got the heart of a SRR deer)!
O:) :old: [beer]
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By internals do you mean just the organs? Or does that include the meat too?
GLW:
--- Quote from: Rerun on Mar 02, 2016, 09:14 ---By internals do you mean just the organs? Or does that include the meat too?
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IIRC ruminant's Cs137 equilibrium in skeletal muscle is about 2 to 2.5 times the concentration as internal organs or heart tissue,...
but, it gets complicated for PETA (people eating tasty animals) because of assimilation and retention of various constituents for organ meat versus skeletal muscle (ref: gout),...
plus, humans eliminate Cs137 more akin to omnivores such as pigs (urine elimination) whereas ruminants are fecal eliminators,...
and then there is the lovely habit that pigs have of ingesting ruminant feces, dead ruminant carcasses, et al, which makes those studies of eating wild game doped with man made sources of radioactivity a variables nightmare,...
so,...
common sense must prevail,...
is it (man made nuclide doped wild game) safe to eat?!!?
define safe,...
should it be avoided?!?!?
I avoid it, I also avoid high fructose corn syrup and adding table salt to my foodstuffs,...
I also have LOTS of other choices available to me,..
maybe there's a hormesis value, maybe not,...
it's a choice,...
like being an occupational exposure worker,... [coffee]
--- Quote from: Bonds 25 on Mar 02, 2016, 03:06 ---Who fu*king eats Reindeer anyways?
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these guys:
Reindeer meat is as healthy as fish
February 24, 2013 - 06:04
http://sciencenordic.com/reindeer-meat-healthy-fish
If you want your diet to be low in fat and high in B-12, omega-3, omega-6 and essential fatty acids, you might think your only choice is a trip to the fish market. But a recent study from the University of Tromsø shows that reindeer is one of the healthiest kinds of meat you can put on your plate.
“Reindeer meat is very healthy,” says Ammar Eltayeb Ali Hassan, a PhD candidate at the university’s Faculty of Health Sciences. “It contains more than double the values of some nutrients than other meats, and comparable to chicken in fat.”......
.....Hassan has also looked into possible drawbacks to eating reindeer meat.
“The only thing we found was cadmium in the liver, which was at a higher level than the maximum limit set by the EU. After we had discovered this, we went ahead and looked at SAMINOR, the Health Interview Survey in areas with Sami and Norwegian settlements, but it turns out that liver consumption even among those who eat a lot of reindeer is so low that there is no health hazard,” Hassan says.
The cadmium levels in reindeer liver are only dangerous if you eat more than 2.7 kg of this type of liver per month, and it is extremely unusual for anyone to eat this amount of reindeer liver.....
.....Today the average Norwegian eats 300 grams of reindeer meat per year. Hardly any reindeer meat is exported.
OldHP:
--- Quote from: GLW on Mar 02, 2016, 06:33 ---So, does SRS still contract out feral & wild hog culling? That was one of the better "nuclear" contracts to dabble in once upon a time,.... I never worked that contract, the earnings potential was about 20% below my minimum threshold,.... And I have not mused about it for years until I saw your post,.... BUT, for the semi-retired, ..........maybe?!?!
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I don't know what they do now! When I went after the little southern deer I lived in Charlotte!
The only time I worked there was to complete 10CFR835 upgrades for Rad-Con and EP, and only because I had two months before I was going to do the same for Mound, agree one of the lowest, below my standards even as semi-retired.
--- Quote from: Rerun on Mar 02, 2016, 09:14 --- By internals do you mean just the organs? Or does that include the meat too?
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Most of the count rate went away after they took the organs, however, the remaining CR was enough that in a NPP you were sent for a trip to the shower. The meat also had radioactivity, however, look at beef, hog, sheep, etc.! At that time we liked real deer (venison)! That's why normally when I took a weekend to go hunting it was normally north. But, SRR was convenient when we didn't have the time
O:) :old: [beer]
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