Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment
- Written by Timothy A. Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986.Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people...