On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:41:19 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

Chernobyl was vastly overblown as a dangerous radioactive accident except at the very time it happened and poor Russian "clean-up" people died from high exposures. Now, it's practically the best wild-life sanctuary the Russkies ever though up.

Sure, if you ignore several thousand human deaths, the loss to human
activity of a thousand square miles, the relocation of a half-million
people, cleanup costs of several hundred billion dollars, the
continued risk posed by the plant itself and the poorly stored waste
produced by it and the surrounding region, and germ-line damage to
many plant and animal species.