Reading an article in Muy Interesante (a Spanish popular science magazine) about Chernobyl 24 years after the accident, I've found that wildlife has flourished in the place, and rare species have returned, leading the Ukrainian government to designate the area a wildlife sanctuary.
There's some controversy around this, with claims against this positive effect, but anyway:
- on one side it remains as a really interesting research case, from which we can learn about how organisms are able to adapt to cope with high radiation levels, and how really damaging different radiation levels are to life
- on other side, We, Humans, seem rather more damaging for other species than a Nuclear explosion and its associated radiation...
Over the years I've watched several documentaries about the Chernobyl accident and its effects, but no doubt that the best one I've watched is this, an excellent research that reveals what governments kept hidden for many years, that after the first explosion there were chances for a much worse second one to happen, one that could have wiped out from the map a good part of Europe.
I remember from another documentary (that I can't find now) how lucky we were in Asturies regarding the radiation, winds kept blowing in such a way that the main radioactive cloud did not reach us. You can see the cloud behavior on this video.
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