The accident was horrific . A nuclear reactor in the Ukraine exploded in April, 1986, killing people and blighting a huge area with nuclear waste. News coverage of the nuclear mishap gripped the world. Some thought the region would be a dead zone for centuries. Nearly 40 years later the exclusion zone around the destroyedContinue reading “Wildlife Abundant Near Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, But Biologists Are Cautious About Mutation Risk”