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Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

  • Written by: Timothy A. Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
imageMuch of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986.Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people...

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