Even after all these years, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant tragedy in Ukraine is still regarded as the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as a result of the disaster, which resulted in major health problems due to high amounts of radiation. Even now, only a small number of people live and work within the “Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.” But, in the decades that people have been absent, something incredible has occurred – the wildlife of Chernobyl!
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: See What Its Extreme Wildlife Looks Like
What Caused It
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat suffered a serious accident on Saturday, April 26, 1986, at the No. 4 reactor. The disaster occurred, ironically, during a safety test; scientists needed to test a new way for cooling down the reactors, and in order to do so, they had to turn off the electricity to mimic an outage.
What Caused It
