{"id":598229,"date":"2026-11-03T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=598229"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:53:19","slug":"belarusian-man-tried-to-bring-7-tonnes-of-radioactive-chanterelle-mushrooms-into-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-tried-to-bring-7-tonnes-of-radioactive-chanterelle-mushrooms-into-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man Tried to Bring 7 Tonnes of Radioactive Chanterelle Mushrooms into Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian man was transporting 7 tonnes of radioactive chanterelle mushrooms to Lithuania, but the shipment was turned back at the border.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Belarusian citizen was crossing the border in a lorry at the Medininkai checkpoint. As the vehicle approached the border control area, stationary radiation monitoring gates were triggered.<\/p>\n<p>During an additional check with a dosimeter, Lithuanian border guards detected the radionuclide caesium-137. The radiation dose rate at the surface reached 0.06 \u03bcSv\/h, compared with a natural background level of 0.02 \u03bcSv\/h. It turned out that the source of the radiation was more than 7 tonnes of fresh chanterelle mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The border guards contacted Lithuania&#8217;s Radiation Protection Centre and were instructed not to allow the vehicle into Lithuania. The lorry was sent back to Belarus, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/baltarusiskos-voveraites-gal-ir-sviezios-bet-radioaktyvios-todel-europos-vartotojui-netinkamos-foto-CzU\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian man was transporting 7 tonnes of radioactive chanterelle mushrooms to Lithuania, but the shipment was turned back at the border. The 36-year-old Belarusian citizen was crossing the border in a lorry at the Medininkai checkpoint. As the vehicle approached the border control area, stationary radiation monitoring gates were triggered. During an additional check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":598230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aea2da277f57.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man Tried to Bring 7 Tonnes of Radioactive Chanterelle Mushrooms into Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598233,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598229\/revisions\/598233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}