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Chernobyl ecosystems ‘remarkably healthy’

August 13, 2005

Ukraine - Chernobyl's ecosystems seem to be bouncing back, 19 years after the region was blasted with radiation from the ill-fated reactor.

Researchers who have surveyed the land around the old nuclear power plant in present-day Ukraine say that biodiversity is actually higher than before the disaster.

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