Johnson, Rebecca L. CHERNOBYL'S WILD KINGDOM
New York : Twenty First Century Books, 2015
It was just an ordinary Friday night in the small town Pripyat, Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, a routine test on the nuclear power plant went horribly wrong. In less than a minute, the plant exploded releasing radiation. The explosion released four hundred times more radioactivity than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. But the locals did not know what happened. Radioactivity is invisible and may take awhile to kill. The officials realized that they could not keep this a secret so by Sunday, the town was evacuated. The power plant was encased in concrete but an 18 mile radius around the plant was deemed uninhabitable and blocked off. This area was considered the Dead Zone. No life could live in it for years if ever. But thirty years after the disaster, scientists found something extraordinary. Life found a way. They found plants and animals flourishing in the dead zone. How could that be? And what types of life is found there?
It was just an ordinary Friday night in the small town Pripyat, Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, a routine test on the nuclear power plant went horribly wrong. In less than a minute, the plant exploded releasing radiation. The explosion released four hundred times more radioactivity than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. But the locals did not know what happened. Radioactivity is invisible and may take awhile to kill. The officials realized that they could not keep this a secret so by Sunday, the town was evacuated. The power plant was encased in concrete but an 18 mile radius around the plant was deemed uninhabitable and blocked off. This area was considered the Dead Zone. No life could live in it for years if ever. But thirty years after the disaster, scientists found something extraordinary. Life found a way. They found plants and animals flourishing in the dead zone. How could that be? And what types of life is found there?
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