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Researchers thought the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was unable to support life. But a bunch of wolves, deer, wild boars, bears, and foxes disagreed.

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In the first part of Channel 5's documentary series The Chernobyl Disaster, which airs tonight at 9pm, engineer Nikolai Steinberg said 'no reports were made' about a leak in 1982.

The New Safe Confinement arch over what was once Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is the world's largest mobile steel structure. Image from: Clay Gilliland/Flickr/cc Scientists monitoring the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine are detecting increased fission reactions inside an inaccessible chamber built around the radioactive ruins of a reactor that suffered a catastrophic meltdown in 1986—and they aren't sure why. New Scientistreported this week that since 2016, researchers have detected a 40% surge in neutron emissions from a sealed room contai...

| Last updated  2:03 PM, April 26 2021 GMT+1 It's now been exactly 35 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster wreaked havoc on the community near Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, but even three decades on, the effects continue to linger to this day - as an urban explorer found when he stumbled upon a bag that had nearly 200 times more radiation than a CT scan: Loading… 10 Neil Ansell took a trip to the nuclear zone near Pripyat a couple of years ago, and found some discarded items that he decided to run a Geiger counter over. The device recorded radiation levels as high as 2...