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"Forty years on from the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl is still contaminated with almost half the caesium-137 that exploded from the Unit 4 reactor in 1986, as well as much longer-lived hazards such as plutonium, tritium and americium. But according to some experts, the long-term effects on nature may be less than if the area had been left to humans..." “The ecosystem in the exclusion zone is much better than it was before the accident,” Smith said. “It’s been a very powerful demonstration of the relative impact of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which is not so big, and the impact of human habitation, which is devastating.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/exclusion-zone-chornobyl-wildlife-thrives-amid-pro-nuclear-shift