Really cool game, but totally made up nonsense. I've played the whole thing through numerous times. It's called S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl. Let me add that one of my ALL TIME favorite computer games is a first-person shooter (released 2007) that takes place in a fictional version of the exclusion zone. Not that we should necessarily trust the accounting of the USSR, but I'd imagine if that number was wildly wrong, people would've proven it's a big lie by now.Īny proof of elevated cancer rates among people around the edge of the exclusion zone? Of first responders to the fire, and some who entered the facility trying to restore water flow early on in the meltdown, less than 50. Subtitle: The response of living organisms to Chernobyl’s ionising radiation.Īn excerpt from this much longer interesting report: Here, however, is a very nice article in English:įROM NUCLEAR DESERT TO EVOLUTIONARY LAB It is open sourced, I think. Germán Orizaola Pereda's Google Scholar hits are few in number and are mostly in Spanish. The first 31 horses were released here in 1998, 12 years after the disaster, and it is one of the few places where they continue to live freely. We’re beginning to monitor these horses, originally from the Asian steppes: the effects on their health could be a proxy for what happens when humans return. New species have arrived, including European bison (Bison bonasus) and the wild Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii). Once expected to become a wasteland, the Chernobyl area is now a nature reserve. The contamination maps on the wall behind me show that some hotspots of radiation persist. In this image, I’m running a blood analysis on one of the tree frogs we have collected. The radiation in the exclusion zone is roughly 1,000 times lower than at the time of the accident, and there are now two hostels, a bar, a couple of restaurants and a cash machine. When I work in the ‘exclusion zone’, the 4,700 square kilometres around the reactor, I stay in a hostel in Chernobyl (20 kilometres from the reactor site), where we have a field laboratory inside an abandoned building. I typically spend two to three weeks in the forests during the frogs’ spring breeding season. Chernobyl is a phenomenal place to study rapid evolution. In 2016, I joined an international research team to do this since then, I have obtained various grants to continue the work. Thirty-five years after the explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, I study how amphibians in the region have changed, physically and genetically.

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