Robert Del TrediciCV Harads Same-produktor, Harads, Laplands, Sweden. December 3, 1986, de la série At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, 1986, épreuve à la gélatine argentique, dimensions indéterminées.
The Becquerel Reindeer
This is a freezer of radioactive reindeer meat in a slaughterhouse in Swedish Lapland. In Sweden the maximum radiation allowed in meat is 300 becquerels per kilo. Meat from reindeer feeding on lichen contaminated with cesium-137 from the Chernobyl cloud was measuring as high as 16,000 becquerels per kilo. Slaughterhouse workers refer to the radioactive carcasses as « the becquerel reindeer ».
