Why is Chernobyl deemed to not be habitable for 22,000 years despite reports and articles everywhere saying that the radiation exposure of being within the exclusion zone is less you’d get than flying in a plane or living in elevated areas like Colorado or Cornwall?
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The basement of the hospital in Pripyat is where they dumped all the fire fighters clothing when they came in to treat them. To this day that basement is highly radio active. Going down there for an hour is like getting 100 years worth of atmospheric radiation.
The forest surrounding the disaster was called the red forest because the dose of radiation it received killed all the trees and turned all their leaves red.
After the disaster they ended up removing all the trees and a lot of the top soil from the surrounding area. Otherwise it would be even worse than it is.
The are currently doing the same thing in Fukushima removing a ton of top soil to reduce the amount of radiation and prevent radioactive dust becoming airborne and contaminating water supplies, food chain, and lungs of the living.
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