Nature Takes Over | Exploring The Radiation Zone Near Chernobyl

37 years later, nature is thriving near Chernobyl. Is it radioactive wasteland or a post-nuclear paradise? Thirty-seven years after the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine reports often portray the area as a paradise for wildlife. Photos and videos show foxes roaming the buildings of abandoned towns and wild horses flourishing after people were permanently evacuated.

But to some scientists, nature isn’t doing as well as it seems. Some scientists claim that wildlife is thriving now after people have left, suggesting that lingering radioactive contamination doesn’t pose a significant threat. But other scientists have found negative effects of radiation on the health and abundance of wildlife and booming flora.

This controversy has significantly increased in recent years. The radionuclide iodine-131 vanished by the summer of 1986. Slower-decaying elements like cesium-137 and strontium-90 scattered unevenly across the zone’s soils, vegetation, fungi, and animals.

Today, in many areas the radiation levels are generally close to normal and in range of 0.20-0.50 microsieverts per hour.

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