Chernobyl update

[Catherine]

The area around Chernobyl has been much studied. It is a bit of a giant laboratory for the effects of radiation on the environment and the animals in particular.

After 30 years the wildlife is still thriving in the exclusion zone. It seems that humans were harder on wildlife that radiation.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

Species that were almost extinct now live and grow in the area.  No doubt radiation has an effect on the individual animal, but the populations on the whole are thriving.

I wonder how Fukushima is doing?

[Ruth]

I'm glad that they have sealed off the area where the explosion happened. The animals are thriving in the area is great news!

[Tobi]

(04-19-2016, 03:26 PM)Catherine Wrote:  It seems that humans were harder on wildlife than radiation.

That says a lot. The general impact of humans being worse than one of the worst nuclear disasters....wow...

[Catherine]

We seem to be the biggest ecological disaster the planet has ever known.
Of course we are responsible for Chernobyl and Fukushima.
We seem to do the most good when we leave things alone. Nature does her best to recover. Chernobyl is an example of how much the world can recover without us.