Sheep in Northern Trøndelag contain six times the amount of radioactivity
that is recommended. Sheep are fed special feed to dispose of it before
slaughtered.
Even 18-years after the Chernobyl accident, the farmers in Trøndelag still
pay for the consequences the world’s largest nuclear power disaster,
reported the television channel NRK Trøndelag.
Sheep in the area have as much as six times more radioactivity than
recommended. The reason is that the food that grows in Trøndelag is still
full of radioactive waste.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority demands that the sheep that use grazing
land in ten townships in northern Trøndelag have to be «emptied» of the
radioactive substances before they are slaughtered by feeding them a special
feed for several weeks.
This special feed is expensive and the farmers have to expect to continue
this practice for another ten years.
«It’s evident that the substance we have to deal with here actually has a
physical half-life of 30 years. This may mean that we have problems like
this in parts of Norway for at least another ten years,» said Anne Live
Rudjord at Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA).
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