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Nearly 40 years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster turned the Ukrainian city of Pripyat and its nearby power plant, Chernobyl, into a radioactive hot zone – and surprisingly, decades later, a haven for wildlife.
May 15, 2021 05:30 PM EDT Tons of nuclear fuel in the wrecked basement of the plant has started their reaction again, and it's displaying no signs of stopping. (Photo : Getty Images) Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant In Ukraine, nuclear reactions are smoldering again in a basement of the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear power plant that is unreachable, according to news reports. Researchers keeping an eye on the plant - which exploded infamously in a 1986 lethal meltdown - have identified a stable spike in the number of neutrons in an underground room known as 305/2. The room is filled with heavy ru...