Weird ‘Alien’ Ecosystem Emerges in Abandoned Uranium Mine
“This place, it turns out, is as alien as anything you might find in a science-fiction movie.” by T.K. Randall via unexplained-mysteries Strange life forms have been found thriving in an environment that’s totally inhospitable to almost everything else. When it comes to environments conducive to life, the interior of the destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and … Continue reading
Chernobyl’s Molten Guts are Warming up, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
By Mike Mcrae via Science Alert Headline Image Credit: Erwin Zwaan Art Over the past five years, a sensor keeping count of neutron emissions deep within the rubble of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has kept track of a gradual spike in activity. The rising count might be nothing. It might even drop back down again, given time. Scientists aren’t … Continue reading
Chernobyl Fungus Could Shield Astronauts from Cosmic Radiation
Stephen Johnson Big Think A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station. When astronauts return to the moon or travel to Mars, how will they shield themselves against high levels of cosmic radiation? A recent experiment aboard the International Space Station suggests a surprising solution: a radiation-eating fungus, which … Continue reading
Radiation-Eating Fungi Are Thriving On The Walls Of Chernobyl’s Reactors
Amazing how much we’ve yet to learn, here we have organism that is able to not just live, but THRIVE in a highly irradiated environment! via IFL Science: From the bubbling hot springs of Yellowstone to the ultra-sterile rooms used to build spacecraft, there’s scarcely a place on Earth where life hasn’t, somehow, managed to survive and even thrive. “Life, … Continue reading
Radioactive Fire Burns in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
On June 5, 2018, a dry grass fire started in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and rapidly spread to the ‘Red Forest’, one of the most contaminated areas in the world today (a 10-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant). 126 Firefighters are currently on site trying to estinguish the radioactive blaze. Officials haven’t sent evacuation orders … Continue reading
Scientist Consider Reopening Radioactive Chernobyl Land to GROW CROPS
Editor’s Comment: Sure why not, the radiation from the past and continuing disasters are all over the Earth anyway (in the air, water, land and every living thing including plant life) so what could go wrong with growing crops directly on this deathly toxic land. SCIENTISTS are looking at the possibility of re-opening the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster … Continue reading
Radioactive Wild Boars Found in Czech Forests 31yrs After Chernobyl Disaster
Radioactive wild boars have been detected in Czech forests, some 31 years after the Chernobyl disaster, a veterinary administration official said, adding that they are eating mushrooms that can absorb high levels of radioactive isotopes. The animals became radioactive due to false truffles, the underground mushrooms they feed on, Jiri Drapal at the Czech State Veterinary Administration told Reuters. The … Continue reading
Fukushima Plant MUST Be Entombed Like Chernobyl — Reactors Will Remain a Threat to World “For the Rest of Time”
“Humanly impossible” to clean up due to shockingly high radiation levels EnviroNews World News, Feb 6, 2017: The astronomical readings bring major concerns to a cleanup operation already spiraling out of control — flying blindly into territory previously uncharted in the history of nuclear power…. To top it off, 530 sieverts per hour might not be the worst cleanup workers … Continue reading
Risk of Another Chernobyl or Fukushima Type Accident Plausible, Experts Say
A team of risk experts who have carried out the biggest-ever analysis of nuclear accidents warn that the next disaster on the scale of Chernobyl or Fukushima may happen much sooner than the public realizes. Researchers at the University of Sussex, in England, and ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, have analysed more than 200 nuclear accidents, and – estimating and controlling … Continue reading
Cancer Overtaking Heart Disease as Europe’s Biggest Killer
Editor’s comment: Could this be a results/effects of all of the nuclear disasters (especially Chernobyl) now starting to make their effects more obvious. If so then we are likely seeing what will be North America’s not so distant future resulting from Fukushima disaster and other home grown disasters quietly on going in the U.S. Cancer is now responsible for more … Continue reading
