in 2016.. I stepped inside one of the most haunting places on Earth — Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Eight years ago, I filmed a full exploration across multiple videos inside the abandoned city of Pripyat,

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation exposure may have altered animals’ genomes—and even, possibly, sped up evolution.

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

A nuclear engineer reacts to Chernobyl’s control room and sarcophagus footage and explains the science. #chernobyl #nuclear #science #history #radiation #reaction