I heard people wanted to study the animals there, as they have high amounts of radiation in their bodies. Apparently they are good case studies for finding mutations or other effects of radiation.
Radioactive boars are roaming Czech mountains after eating mushrooms contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster
Didn’t see the “OH CRAPSKI” button anyplace. I did read about the animals there. Still high rad levels.
One of the many scientists permitted to study in the region made an interesting discovery:
Dead trees do not rot in the exclusion zone (there are no microbes left to break down the wood).
That raises all sorts of interesting questions...