Same in Sweden, UK, parts of central Europe and large parts of eastern Europe. This includes everything from wild mushroom and berries to wild game. In the years right after even milk had increased radiation levels sometimes going beyond acceptable standards.
> Same in Sweden, UK, parts of central Europe and large parts of eastern Europe
Exactly.
Locally.
I live in Italy, it affected us in 1986, then everything went back to normal.
And the laws in place are there only for precautions, nobody wants to lift them and be held responsible in case something happens, but the death toll of Chernobyl wasn't that scary as people like to imagine.
From where I live to Berlin is ~= 850kms (~525 miles)
From where I live to Warsaw is ~= 1,100kms (~715 miles)
From where I live to Pryp'yat' (where the Chernobyl plant is) is just 1,665 km (1,000 miles)
But, from where I live to Catania (Sicily, Southern Italy) is about 1,050kms (~630 miles)
So yeah, it was far from global.
It was global locally to continental Europe.
Global means that if the temperature goes up one degree celsius in the North Pole, the sea level rises in Australia.
BTW from the map you posted it's clear that Northern Italy, where I live, was hit harder than most of Sweden, Germany or Poland.
We eat mushrooms and vegetables without any particular concern.
Despite that, the global cancer rate ranking is (every 100,000)
1 Australia 468
7 France (metropolitan) 344.1
8 Denmark 340.4
9 Norway 337.8
13 UK 319.2
15 Germany 313.1
23 Sweden 294.7
24 Italy 290.6
This is the fallout map, please tell me how that is "the definition of local" https://www.unscear.org/docs/JfigXI.pdf