Radioactive Sunday Lunch ; Exclusive: Even After Two Decades, Nuclear Fallout From the Chernobyl Power Station Disaster Still Lurks Within Lambs Destined for Scots Tables
Daily Mail › November 30, 2005
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APART from the bright blue dye, there is little to distinguish the flock of upland sheep from any other. Yet, as they graze contentedly on a windswept Scottish hillside, they carry a deadly legacy from one of the world's worst environmental disasters.
These are the Chernobyl sheep animals still carrying traces of radiation from the catastrophic explosion two decades ago at the nuclear power station in the old Soviet Union.See the full content of this document
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Radioactive Sunday Lunch ; Exclusive: Even After Two Decades, Nuclear Fallout From the Chernobyl Power Station Disaster Still Lurks Within Lambs Destined for Scots Tables
Astonishingly, despite the fact that the flock is deemed to be 'contaminated', meat from some of these sheep will end up on dinner plates and restaurant menus the length and breadth of Scotland.
The picture-postcard countryside and lush fields in East Ayrshire in which the animals graze hides a deadly secret within the soil. The shadow of Chernobyl still hangs darkly over Scotland.A Scottish Daily Mail investigation has uncovered the extent to which radioactive pollution and fallout from the accident still affects the country and the liveliho...See the full content of this document
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