Hunting the Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl

[Czechlervitz30]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg

This is very interesting. It is kind of funny too. Chernobyl exploded in 1986. Apparently it was more destructive than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

[account_inactive]

Shane is my favourite journalist from VICE. It's a little off-topic, but have you seen the videos of him going to North Korea? Pretty interesting, too.

[Gawdzilla]

I've seen reports that 36 people died at Chernobyl. I know National Geographic has a video on "Radioactive Wolves", showing that the area is prospering now that the humans are gone. It has the largest number of wolves in one area in the world. The mutation rate is twice normal, 0.4% vs. 0.2% in "normal" areas.

[Czechlervitz30]

Shane is my favourite journalist from VICE. It's a little off-topic, but have you seen the videos of him going to North Korea? Pretty interesting, too.

I have seen a North Korean video by VICE but I don't know if it was with Shane.

[CapnAwesome]

What's most interesting about that doc, is how quick nature returns to being thriving and abundant in the absence of man. Humans are more destructive to life there then a nuclear meltdown.

P.S. The North Korea documentaries are amazing.

[abaris]

I've seen reports that 36 people died at Chernobyl.

But you know that people are still dying? Firemen, soldiers, helpers of all kinds are sick for decades because protection was totally insufficient for the amount of radiation.

Same as with Hiroshima. The total number of victims is much higher than the death toll in the original blast.

[downbeatplumb]

The saddest thing is that the fairground that never got used.

[The Grand Nudger]

What's most interesting about that doc, is how quick nature returns to being thriving and abundant in the absence of man. Humans are more destructive to life there then a nuclear meltdown.

P.S. The North Korea documentaries are amazing.

Meh, the meltdown was less destructive than we've told ourselves since in the first place.  In any case, you're forgetting that human populations cause an increase in rodents and assorted pests, as well as many ungulates and large fowl.  Canines do well, felines do well.  Etc.  A particular species of mostly hairless ape does awfully well in close contact with large numbers of men, as the most pronounced example of of how everything about us encourages nature. We brim right over with life, it spills out into everything around us, and ofc that means alot of death as well.....no free lunches and all that.