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Tuesday
Aug032010

Boar still radioactive in Germany from Chernobyl explosion.

As Germany's wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007. Der Spiegel has the story.