Chernobyl has been devoid of any human residents since a nuclear meltdown in 1986 caused radiation levels to spike to un-survivable numbers. Since then, the area has become a de facto habitat for ...

Despite the radiation in the soil, water, plants, and everything in and near Chernobyl, the animals living there ... 3.5 million were ultimately affected by the disaster in the 20,000 square ...

The monkeys were killed as agricultural pests, but for researchers like Suzuki, the animals are invaluable ... glands and muscle tissues were affected by radiation from the nuclear accident.

The meltdown at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ... were polluted with radiation. The affected territories were home to about 3 million people, 52,000 of them were resettled.