(Via Hot Air Headlines) I admit: I’ve been wondering for quite some time just how dangerous the Chernobyl site still is. I mean, I’m aware that the epicenter is not somewhere that you want to linger. But the local ecosystem seems to be functioning more or less as expected:
The site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is now a wildlife haven. The abundance of large animals around Chernobyl, such as deer, elk and wild boar, matches that of nature reserves in the region – and wolves are seven times as common.
Of course. The true apex predator – humanity – is currently staying far, far away from the place. Gives the wolves a leg up, as it were.
Moe Lane
PS: I have wondered for some time just what would have been the effects of a nuclear war in the 1970s or 1980s. It’s traditional to assume that civilization would have ended above the township level, but what would have actually happened? Fortunately, we never had to find out.