More biodiversity at Chernobyl

The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, August 11, 2005

[MinorityRepublican]

Nineteen years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, researchers say the surrounding land in Ukraine has more biodiversity. Some 100 species on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species, as well as bear and wolf, have been found in the evacuated zone, says Viktor Dolin, of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, reported the Moscow News Thursday. There are a lot of mutations in species but they get weeded out and many young fish living in the reactor's cooling ponds are deformed. But adults tend to be healthy, implying that those harmed by radiation die young, said James Morris of the University of South Carolina. However, with some 40 different radioactive elements -- including strontium-90 and decay products of uranium and plutonium -- released into the exclusion zone, it will be many hundreds of millennia before humans could live in the area again, said Dolin.

[martin_fierro]

[kenth]

[konaice]

There are a lot of mutations in species but they get weeded out and many young fish living in the reactor's cooling ponds are deformed. But adults tend to be healthy, implying that those harmed by radiation die young.

This is good to know. I've often wondered why the area seems so normal in all the pictures that are shown. Personally, I suspect it will be quite livable much sooner than world suspects.

And my brother, who has visited the area agrees.

[denydenydeny]

it will be many hundreds of millennia before humans could live in the area again

I save up little details like this for when people lecture me about the glories of socialism.

[MinorityRepublican]

LMAO!

[rawhide]

OP, you said this was an excerpt. You posted the entire article, which is not really much of an article. Really short article with very little content.

[MinorityRepublican]

OP, you said this was an excerpt. You posted the entire article, which is not really much of an article. Really short article with very little content.

It's required to excerpt from Washington Times.

[spycatcher]

[rawhide]

OP, here is a link to the original article from Nature Magazine that has much more content:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050808/full/050808-4.html

[endthematrix]

I've seen where one small village once off the map in the old Soviet Ukraine living right next to a bomb crater that is filled with radioactive water. They drink and bathe there. And the mutations....

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Sleipnir at pasture?

[martin_fierro]

Obligatory "Motorcycle Tour of Chernobyl" Link

[rawhide]

"Obligatory "Motorcycle Tour of Chernobyl" Link"

Yes this is a must read for those interested in Chernobyl. I have read it a few times.

[Revel]

Lots of pics here of Chernobyl as it is today:




http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

[Revel]

oops sorry. I see you already posted it. It is just automatic with me when I see Chernobyl threads.

[manic4organic]

Mmmmm...Quizno's.

[Revel]

BTW...In case you missed it there is a new round of pictures taken on a new tour of the land of chernobyl. The section is called "land of the wolves". It is very interesting and educational as well.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/

[kb2614]

[martin_fierro]

Kewl, thx.