Chernobyl Is a Graveyard for Wildlife.

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Chernobyl is a Graveyard for Wildlife. Recently a big disaster happened in Japan that the nuclear leak recalls the attention of nuclear safety. Everyone worries about how much nuclear radiation will influence our lives and when this influence will fade away. Facing these questions, scientists start to find answers from previous lessons and have found some interesting phenomenon while they are observing Chernobyl—one of the worst nuclear accidents in the world. However, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station now is teeming with life. 25 years after the catastrophe, Chernobyl appears many wild animals like the wild boar, otters, wildfowl, and rodents which have not existed for the past decades (Mulvey, 2006). This phenomenon makes people begin to doubt about whether Chernobyl is a good place or a bad place for wild animals to live without human beings. Even Chernobyl starts to open to tourists and many scientists begin to insist that by halting the destruction of habitat, the Chernobyl disaster helped wildlife flourish. I still believe that there must have influences on wild animals because of radioactive element in nuclear radiation. For people who support that Chernobyl is a heaven for wild animals, there is strong evidence that Chernobyl starts to open to tourists in recent years. Already in 1991, government officials have presented a new tourist to offer vacation trips through the contaminated frozen areas of the Chernobyl after hundreds of farmers have been quietly coming home (Clines, 1991). After this, in 2004, there was another trip suddenly showed up—daily driving excursions depart Kiev; Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, now covered in a concrete and steel sarcophagus; Prypyat, a peace and quiet ghost town which is full of abandoned apartment blocks, hotels, and kindergartens. As to show the trip in Chernobyl is not only a joke, there was
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