Chernobyl today: published impressive shots

Reborn as the flora and fauna of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Reporters went to the Chernobyl exclusion zone to find out about the flora and fauna in the contaminated areas.

26 April 1986 in the former Ukrainian SSR was the largest anthropogenic catastrophe – the explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Nearly half a million people were forced to leave their homes, and an area of over 2,000 square kilometres had a terrible status – “unfit for life”.

The soil in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone is impregnated with the radioactive fallout. Although some isotopes are almost completely decayed, in these soils are still radioactive elements, half-life of which is hundreds, if not thousands of years!

Radiation tends to accumulate in plants, bark of trees, to destroy the cells of living organisms. It would seem that after this disaster, the exclusion zone needs for many years to turn into a dead wasteland. Fortunately, these predictions did not materialize.

Nowadays the Area is a unique area, much of which is covered with dense vegetation. About 300 species of animals, including red book, found here “Paradise” is reliably shielded from human activities.

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