Scientific tests by environmental organization Greenpeace reveal that residents of areas affected by Chernobyl disaster three decades ago are still consuming radioactive foods. These foods and drinks are with dangerously high radiation levels, as per the group.

Researchers carried out some tests on the behalf of Greenpeace and found that some key isotopes, like strontium-90 and caesium-137, have stopped participating in overall contamination, but they are still there in forests.

Locals are still coming into contact with dangerous radiation that was expelled in 1986 after an explosion at a nuclear plant. A plume of radioactive fallout covered a large portion of Europe with dangerously high levels of radiation immediately after the explosion.

Greenpeace released a report, ‘Nuclear Scars: The Lasting legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima’, where it said that people are still eating food contaminated with radioactive. Some key isotopes are still in areas like forests whose wood people use for construction and burning purpose, it added.

The report, which will be published Wednesday, said, “Ukraine no longer has sufficient funds to finance the programmes needed to properly protect the public... this means the radiation exposure of people still living in the contaminated areas is likely increasing”.

The Greenpeace report also found that in some cases, levels of radiation in affected areas have increased. It also predicts that the contamination is going to pose threat to locals for next many years. A number of kids, who took birth 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, are forced to eat contaminated food, it added.

Forests around the affected location have been found to become repositories of radioactive contamination, as per the report. Officials from Russia and Ukraine have not commented on the report yet.