UKRAINE. Between Voladarka and Narodychi, the pike are probably contaminated by radioactive particles that they have eaten, the young fishermen who were born after the catastrophe and know no different way of life, have decided to eat them. Typically digestion of radioactive particles when accumulated can take up to a decade to appear as a medical diseases, related to the heart, nerves, brain, cancer and so on. May-June 2008.