[null and void]

At Chernobyl, workers dug into the room below the reactor, where the uranium melted into, and found black fungus growing. Apparently some fungus can use radiation as an energy source and feed on it.

Thinking of you...

[Fungi]

Thank you your most honorable Nullness. Here is early work on melanized fungi and radioactivity: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457&type=printable