Chernobyl: Why the nuclear disaster was an accidental environmental success

^{(Updated: 09/05/2021; Euronews)}

Widely hailed as the worst nuclear accident to ever occur, the incident happened during a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then Soviet Ukraine. The skies filled with contamination, with radioactive rain falling across Europe.

While the disaster killed fewer than 100 people in the immediate aftermath, the UN and WHO reported in 2005 that there had been 4,000 Chernobyl-related deaths. Other groups argue that the toll across Europe is actually as high as 16,000.

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But now, nearly 35 years on from the incident, the Exclusion Zone seems to have undergone a rewilding transformation.

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