{"id":43269,"date":"2007-04-19T06:42:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T06:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2021-04-05T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:08:00","slug":"can-the-region-destroyed-by-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-disaster-really-recuperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/can-the-region-destroyed-by-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-disaster-really-recuperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the region destroyed by the  Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster really recuperate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chernwindow_461_45.jpg\" alt=\"chernwindow 461 45\" title=\"chernwindow 461 45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday April 26, 1986  was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a day of catastrophe<\/a> for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant,  at 1:23:58 a.m. reactor 4 suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown. It resulted in <strong>subsequent radioactive contamination<\/strong> of the surrounding geographic area. Large areas of <strong>Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated<\/strong>, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/060425_chernobyl_big_45.jpg\" alt=\"060425 chernobyl big 45\" title=\"060425 chernobyl big 45\" \/><br \/><em>Kindergarten classroom in Pripyat, Ukraine, twenty years after disaster<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/060426_chernobyl_big_45.jpg\" alt=\"060426 chernobyl big 45\" title=\"060426 chernobyl big 45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Till last year scientists saw a <strong>silver lining<\/strong> to the disaster since the evacuated area seemed to be filled with new green  birch trees, Roe deer bounced though the deserted houses, wild boar were found living in villages and birds thrived in nests. <strong>Seemingly Healthy-looking deer, boar, lynx, eagle owls, swallows<\/strong> are among the animals found throughout the zone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gallery11_45.jpg\" alt=\"gallery11 45\" title=\"gallery11 45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, these animals could not be surviving unscathed; even though they seem hardier than humans do. Radioactivity must have resulted in some abnormalities in their genes. Such <strong>mutated animals and birds could pass on their abnormal genes to the global population.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070418-chernobyl-birds_big_45.jpg\" alt=\"070418 chernobyl birds big 45\" title=\"070418 chernobyl birds big 45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This concept has been reconfirmed this year, since studies show that  <strong>barn swallows living near Chernobyl<\/strong>, suffer from many more <strong>birth defects and abnormalities than would ordinarily be expected.<\/strong> In addition, the swallows are not living as long and are not breeding as successfully as their distant counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The findings therefore suggest that people living near the affected zone could still be at risk even though radiation levels have declined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Baverstock<\/strong>, an environmental scientist at the University of Kuopio in Finland is quoted to have said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It confirms that even relatively low levels of exposure to radioactive fallout can result in genetic effects. With proposals to increase the use of nuclear energy, this is a matter that needs urgent attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chernobyl3_wideweb_470x3050_45.jpg\" alt=\"chernobyl3 wideweb 470x3050 45\" title=\"chernobyl3 wideweb 470x3050 45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vast radioactive contamination as a result of nuclear tests, accidents at nuclear plants, or even normal operation of nuclear plants has become a <strong>global ecological problem<\/strong>, whose importance was so dramatically brought to light by the Chernobyl accident.<\/p>\n<p>Although such catastrophes could probably be avoided, no one can guarantee with certainty that industrial nuclear plants will operate without accidents or that they will ever be provided with 100% closed-circuit (absolutely wasteless) technology. <strong>So what other alternatives do we have?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: National geographic    \t<\/p>\n<div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; 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