Chernobyl Revisted On April 26, 1986 reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Facility exploded. After this stunning catastrophy countries all around phased out nuclear energy entirely, due to fear of the same fate as Chernobyl. When Bill and the professor visited the site of the disaster it was clearly evident that the nuclear radiation present was not that much of a threat. Yet in fact it was still a threat in the fact that it WAS present. When they would pass nearby trees on their tiny bus the backround level on the dachometer read higher than in the clear patches of lands. That is because the trees surrounding Chernobyl would catch the radio nuclei and hold them for thier own, that posed a threat when trees were exposed to higher levels of the original radiation. The trees closer to the blast were so intoxicated with the radiation they had t....

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