Red Forest
About Red Forest
The Red Forest is the ten-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone, located in Polesia. The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of ionizing radiation as a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986. The site remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today.
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Lots of microbes and fungi got contamination and they died. As a result, there are loads of trees in this place called the Red Forest, which is where all the trees turned red and died, and they're not decaying. There's leaf litter — the sort of leaf mulch on the ground — but it's three times thicker in the hottest bit of Chernobyl, radiation-wise, than it is in areas without radiation.
from 205: No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 at 00:05:23 · read transcript
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