Matthew Schofield, writing for the Miami Herald:
Even 30 years later – 25 years after the country that built it ceased to exist – the full damage of that day is still argued.
Death toll estimates run from hundreds to millions. The area near the reactor is both a teeming wildlife refuge and an irradiated ghost-scape. Much of eastern and central Europe continues to deal with fallout aftermath. The infamous Reactor Number 4 remains a problem that is neither solved nor solvable.
Riveting account of the Chernobyl disaster, with a first person accounting from one of the very few people who was there and lived to tell the tale.
There’ll be more like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Once all those pesky burdensome regulations are out of the way, that is.
The reactor at Fukushima tolerated the quake just fine. It was the salt water flooding that nailed it. Chernobyl is interesting, because despite the “a threat for 3000 years thing” people going into the region have found wildlife largely unaffected. There was an early kill off but they’re doing well now.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160421-the-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-is-arguably-a-nature-reserve
“A team of US and Ukrainian ecologists set up traps to explore how small mammals were responding. They caught a range of voles, mice and shrews – and found that the abundance of animals and the diversity of species was more or less identical both inside and outside the exclusion zone.
“In other words, within 10 years of the disaster, the small mammal populations were apparently showing no ill effects from the radiation.”
and
“If anything, wolves are faring better at Chernobyl than at the other reserves.”
And another fascinating quote:
“We should not be surprised by these findings, says Smith. “There have been a lot of radiobiological studies over the decades to find out what it takes to really damage animal populations, to do some serious reproductive damage. And across most of the exclusion zone, the doses aren’t really high enough to have that effect.””
This is a worthwhile documentary on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dS3WvKKSpKI
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