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Radioactive Boars Are Roaming Around Germany
The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occurred nearly three decades ago, but the radioactive legacy it has left on the landscape still continues today. Those impacts are not just felt in Ukraine and nearby Belarus, however, but in several European countries hundreds of miles away. Wind and rain deposited the radiation-laden plume soon after the disaster took place, and researchers tracked it east to Moscow, west to Poland, as far north as Sweden and Finland, and southwest to Germany.
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