8 Facts About Chernobyl That Will Give You Nightmares

It’s hard to be alive in our modern society that relies so much on nuclear energy and not know what happened in Chernobyl. It’s a catastrophe that has kept people weary about this form of energy for several decades now and the area surrounding the plant where the disaster happened still hasn’t come anywhere close to recovering from what happened all those years ago.

Just to prove the point, here’s a few facts about Chernobyl that are pretty much guaranteed to give you nightmares. Just in case nuclear fallout wasn’t already doing it for you.

Nobody Lives There
Despite the disaster happening decades ago, no one has lived in Chernobyl since then and it doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. Despite there no longer being a nuclear plant to blow up, it seems like people still aren’t too keen on dealing with this area as a living space. Might have something to do with the next point.

The Radiation Levels Can Still Be Lethal
Despite the radiation levels in Chernobyl being highly variable, sometimes changing significantly over a distance of only a few miles, most of Chernobyl is still seeing radiation levels high enough to be considered lethal.

Even The Animals Are Radioactive
While humans can’t survive or reproduce with even minor numbers of radiation, the animals seem to be doing relatively fine. Sure, there’s birth defects and weird growths and all you’d pretty much expect from growing up in a radiated environment, but at least they’re somehow surviving.