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The mutants of Chernobyl: How radiation exposure has forced animals to mutate in incredible ways to survive
On April 26, 1986, a systems test at the Number Four RBMK reactor at the Chernnobyl plant in the Ukraine led to a reactor overheating, and initiated a series of disastrous explosions, leading to the world's worst nuclear disaster. The Soviet military rapidly established an 'Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden due to contamination, and which remains largely deserted today, a haven for wildlife from feral dogs to wild horses. But what effect has the radiation of 'The Zone' - an area the size of Yosemite National Park - had on the wildlife that now thrives ... (full story)