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by mlyle 1105 days ago
If bioaccumulation hasn't posed a problem yet, it doesn't seem to be too much of a concern.

The dose rate near Chernobyl has fallen 2 orders of magnitude. Further, now the vast majority of the activity is Cs-137, which is excreted pretty quickly. Further, the waste is getting buried and further removed from the food chain (though Russia recently stirred up soil there, which isn't ideal).