Wild Horses roam freely around the exclusion zone Nature is more resilient than we imagine. The world was shaken to the core forty years ago, on April 26, 1986, when an explosion in reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that destroyed the reactor core and ignited a graphite fire. The worst nuclear disaster in history unfolded. A massive plume of radioactive material was released into the atmosphere, contaminating large areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, with fallout spreading across much of Europe. Photo was taken from a helicopter several months after the explosion – photo by IAEA/Wiki Commons But today, four decades later, on contaminated land that is still too dangerous for human life, a variety of animals have returned to the…
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