Scientists from American College Wilhelm and Mary found in Honey, assembled on the east coast of the United States, traces of the nuclear weapons of the Cold War. Their concentration is not enough to harm man, reports Ropular Mechanics.
Nuclear waste in honey managed to detect by chance: graduate students brought samples of some products from the east of the country to college to check the level of radiation in them. It turned out that the jar with honey contains weak traces of radioactive cesium-137. This isotope is a product of nuclei dividing in reactors and nuclear weapons and one of the main components of the radioactive contamination of the biosphere.
Scientists came to the conclusion that the particles of nuclear weapons were downtown on colors from which bees collect nectar. In total, experts managed to detect 68 “polluted” jackets of honey from 122 tested instances.
Cold War called military, economic and ideological confrontation between two blocks of states. The center of the first block was the USSR, the second – the USA. This confrontation, which lasted from 1946 to 1989, was not war in the full sense of the word. It was accompanied by a racing of weapons, including nuclear, periodically threatening lead to the Third World War.
In July 2018, it was reported that French scientists were discovered in California wine radioactive isotopes. Scientists of the National Center for Scientific Research studied red and pink wines, the raw materials for which grapes served as collected in 2009-2012. In the fault, made after the accident at Fukushima NPP in 2011, the analysis showed the presence of radioactive cesium-137.