An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. - IAEA Imagebank (CC BY-SA 2.0)
THE 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster left behind a legacy of devastation, with radiation levels so extreme that the area was deemed uninhabitable for thousands of years.
Yet within the ruins of Reactor 4, scientists discovered something extraordinary thriving in the most radioactive zones.
