even today while touring around the off-limits ghost town of Prypiat people are warned with geiger counter in hand, to avoid any vegetation or wood because they retain very high concentraions of radioactivity. even stuff like moss or lichen, which coinicentally reindeer as far away as norway snack on and become radioactive themselves.
2006-12-16 05:33:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
There are certainly "hot spots" around Chernobyl but I wouldn't have thought radiation would have caused discolouration. Part of the problem with radioactive contamination is that it is invisible to the naked eye.
Sorry, that sounds like a modern myth to me. As for the grazing animals though, that part is true. Pastures as far away as North Wales (UK) were affected.
2006-12-16 05:45:58 · answer #1 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a daytime picture of the spot here, third picture down: englishrussia.com/2014/07/20/chernobyl-exclusion-zone-from-above/2/
It looks like it got a heavy dose of radiation.
2014-07-21 12:36:25 · answer #2 · answered by Knox Blue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... that is the news making a bigger deal and not statin the facts... the radioactive sites are "hot spots" but they never appear to glow red....
2006-12-16 18:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by frost breezy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋