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What Chernobyl’s stray dogs could teach us about radiation
- gladiatr72 4y agoThis was done in the 90s or 0s after healthy populations of animals believed to be endangered were found living in the quarantine zone around the shuttered nuclear warhead facility in South Carolina. Many species were originally from other states.
- simonblack 4y agoThe fact that an animal might be surviving right now is no pointer to the ultimate fate of that animal. How long has it lived in that area? What has it been eating? Where in that area has it lived? Has it got survivor's bias? * Many people have been exposed to radiation and appear to have survived. But then they die later or develop cancers with carry them off prematurely several years later. It's interesting to look at the figures from the soldiers who witnessed nuclear explosions in the fifties and were covered in dust by the shock waves. In later life, a much higher proportion of those succumbed early to various cancers. * It can be fascinating to read about survivors from a disaster. Often in an attack on an objective a soldier might see men all around him get killed. He then then lives on another 80 or 90 years, eventually dieing at the age of 107. https://www.smh.com.au/national/last-wwi-digger-dies-aged-107-20050625-gdlkqq.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/last-wwi-digger-dies-aged-10...