On April 26, 1986, a systems test at the Number Four RBMK reactor at the Chernnobyl plant in the led to a reactor overheating, and initiated a series of disastrous explosions, leading to the world's worst nuclear disaster.The Soviet military rapidly established an ' Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden due to contamination, and which remains largely deserted today, a haven for wildlife from feral dogs to wild horses.But what effect has the radiation of 'The Zone' - an area the size of Yosemite National Park - had on the wildlife that now thrives there?
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