You can’t “eat” ionizing gamma radiation emitted by Chernobyl effluents any more than you can “eat” radio waves or sunshine. You might think the media would find the right term to describe whatever this is.
I guess its like using the term “moderate” to describe candidate Booty-gigge. I think “knob-gobbling” is a more technically correct adjective.
some strange voodo
Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1866175/
Author is a moron. Fungus “eats” radiation “light”** like plants “eat” sunlight. Plants don’t eat the sun, nor do these fungi eat any radioactive materials. No reduction in radioactive material. The material still glows brightly with ionizing radiation as it undergoes radioactive decay down to a stable isotope.
** Everything on the EM spectrum is light. Sunlight, radio waves, x-rays, alpha, beta, gamma ionizing radiation, infrared and UV, just to name a few.