The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster is not a barren, lifeless wasteland.
A dense, primordial forest dominates the “Alienation Zone” around the shutdown Chernobyl nuclear power plant where Reactor Four exploded in 1986.
Chornobyl
Al Jazeera: In Chornobyl’s radioactive forest, arson and timber smuggling
A handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Prime Minister press-service on April 28, 2015 shows smoke rising from a forest fire burning near the Chornobyl plant in Ukraine.
