Nuclear basket: what grows in Chernobyl

• Nuclear basket: what grows in Chernobyl

Thirty years ago, the Chernobyl there was a terrible man-caused disaster, which resulted in thousands of deaths. In addition, a huge amount of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, irradiating a large area. And though it's been thirty years, the risk of infection is still very high. Residents who dared to stay in the surrounding areas of Pripyat, is still exposed to radiation - in particular, due to their diet. After all, there have long been growing all the usual human culture, but whether they should have?

The report of Greenpeace, released last week, notes that the concentration of radioactive isotopes in the products of local manufacture is 16 times higher than the permissible limits.

A particular concern of researchers called the nuclear isotope cesium-137: it is easily absorbed by plants, and can be expanded as much as a few hundred years.

dangerously high level of radiation was detected in milk, wild mushrooms, berries and meat. In particular, the milk samples from two hundred kilometers from Chernobyl, contain the same cesium-137, the concentration of which exceeds the maximum allowable limit for an adult.

To drink the local water, eat the food - hence increase the risk of cancer several times.

It is obvious that the radiation from the disaster has infiltrated the entire local ecosystem, affecting more than just food crops. The same report says the number of fires have occurred at Chernobyl: their entire 1100. This happened with the 1993 to 2013 mean that the radiation after the disaster, initially absorbed by vegetation, is still at a high level and even seized more territory.

Local people eat the dirty food - a practice that would be worth to stop a long time ago. Unfortunately, at the moment no alternative to people simply does not remain.

Greenpeace study clearly showed the whole world the black shadows of the Chernobyl disaster. The risk of use of nuclear reactors as a source of energy is very high, and people, at least - yet still not able to stop him.

However, it is worth noting that the nuclear accident, in fact, extremely rare. The particular event was caused by neglect of staff safety and an extremely unstable structure of the reactor, which was built in the Soviet Union.

Fortunately, the person is able to learn from experience. The accident at Fukushima, caused terrible tsunami of 2011, was eliminated in the infernal deadlines. Hard work - and a lot of luck - allowed engineers rescuers to stop virtually all the consequences of the disaster. You can hope that in the future we will learn and how to simply avoid such errors.