Crazy stuff.
I don't see a need for nuclear power plants to be honest. There are other methods of power generation that don't pose the same danger. After all, it's no longer a question of "if" something will go wrong at a nuclear power plant but rather a question of "when is it going to happen again?"
Wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl
a very freaky thing going on is the "red forest"
that is the forested area in the immediate downwind hot zone from the reactor
the fallout and direct rad killed the trees and vegetation; made the leaves drop and turned the plants and trees red.
the radiation was and is so strong that none of these trees or fallen leaves have decomposed; the rad levels are so high that the micro flora and bacteria needed to break down the wood and leaves was eliminated and still can not gain any footing
there is such a layer of bio mass on the ground that it is a huge fuel depot for any wild fire
which would create a whole new disaster
if there were to be a forest fire it would set aloft tons of radioactive material into the air creating an event that would be second to the original disaster itself
but there are technology available that makes it quite safe to use but it's about implementing it.
Chernobyl was down to extremely poor Soviet reactor design (which has shown up since the fall of the Soviet Union in the efforts of Western specialized firms to decommission and dismantle safely the Soviet era reactors both in power plants and in ships). Fukushima was a very old reactor plant where both the government and the operator ignored repeated warnings about vulnerability to Tsunami. Newer reactor designs both produce more power and use much less material in the process (and generate much less waste).
Yes . The modded a standard power plant into a Nuclear Plant ...Morons ...
Alas all of the Soviet reactors were built to the highly unsafe RBMK design. Chernobyl Number 4 blew up largely due to the tendency at low power to be unstable and the improperly designed control rods actually caused the reaction to intensify before slowing down. Because of this Western firms assisted the former Soviet Union states in modifying the remainder to make them safer while they are over time decommissioned. Meanwhile a successor reactor is under development in cooperation with the West (MKER) which much more closely resembles Western plants.