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For humans, sensitivity to radiation exposure can be illustrated with a bell curve, with the left side of the curve being people who exhibit sensitivity (die quickly) and the middle being people who are sickened to various degrees but don’t die quickly, and the right side of the bell being people who ‘miraculously’ appear to survive exposure unscathed.

When Chernobyl blew up, around 9 people in the control room were “dusted” with radioactive fuel. One of the men was responsible for the disaster (he ordered safety systems taken offline for a ‘test’). He had already survived radiation exposure in a prior nuclear incident which he caused on a submarine, and he went on to survive being dusted with Chernobyl fuel. The other 8 men died within days and their deaths were grisly. Some of the doctors at the hospital where contaminated patients were taken were ‘dropping’ (sensitive - dying)just from treating patients but other staff survived.

There were towns where, and I am quoting old documentation, “every child was ill”. The body can repair DNA damage and radiation burns, but it has limitations and may have to compete with other challenges to the immune system. An international organization reported that incidents of all disease increased (immune systems were dealing with radiation exposure and so the population was experiencing increased illness/death from other causes their bodies would otherwise recover from).

At the time, some insisted that the concern about radioactive waste and the exposure of the population was overblown because of the variation (bell curve) in genetic sensitivity meant (they said) that in a few generations those who were not sensitive to radiation exposure would dominate the gene pool of the population. A researcher dryly remarked, “Yes, and I suppose you would be satisfied if your entire family died out or battled cancer their entire lives because they weren’t among the genetically resilient.”

There wasn’t enough uncontaminated land upon which to relocate those from affected areas, so many people were forced to live in irradiated zones, raise families, contend with deaths, illnesses and genetic deformities. A translator explained for a woman in an interview that she was given a radiation detector by the government, but the laundry was radioactive, the food was radioactive - she began to cry because knowing that it was all around her did not help because she and those she loved could not leave the area. The footage is sad (understatement).

Finding populations of puppies today doesn’t indicate the suffering and dying of genetically impacted animals (cancers, blood disorders, mutations, sterility etc.) that lived/suffered died during the 36 years between Chernobyl and the present. We don’t even know how long the puppies will live or the percentage of which can’t reproduce or produce mutations. Diseased dogs or other animals may not come out of the forest or explore the area where they could be observed. We don’t know what populations/species could not survive exposure and died out.

I’ve seen articles like the one about puppies before, but to me it’s like spraying a room full of people with a toxin and, after some die, noting that the survivors prove concerns about the toxin is overblown.

“Life will find a way” may mean that a child grew up in a contaminated zone, lived with blood disorders/physical exhaustion and suppressed immunity, wasn’t allowed to move out of the area, married and raised children with lymphomas, cancers etc. I say this having researched it over the years; the reading and first hand accounts are incredibly depressing.

I do recall reading about wild boar populations that were heavily irradiated (high content of Cesium-137); it was hard convincing people that the animals were not safe to eat.

About 10 years ago - sickened populations still living in the contaminated zones of the Ukraine confronted the World Health Organization which the UN forced to “happy talk” exposure zones. The camera faced the floor at times and you could hear the people demanding the WHO act like medical people and admit the medical issues were still present. The WHO speaker anxiously promised to speak the truth to the UN. That was a lie; by design the UN vetted all content produced and distributed by WHO.