"Ghost town" Chernobyl, after the nuclear leak, is there really a rat as big as a car?
The "Chernobyl Incident" was a nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine under Soviet rule. The accident is considered to be the most serious nuclear power accident in history, and it is also the first major accident to be rated as a seventh-level event by the International Nuclear Incident Classification Table, and the most expensive disaster event in modern history! Many people believe that nuclear radiation will cause biological mutations, and the "lace news" that once spread on the Internet was:
Rats the size of a car appeared in Chernobyl and attacked the expedition! This kind of plot is like the one filmed in a science fiction blockbuster, and the American drama "Chernobyl" has contributed to the prevalence of this statement. Imagine if there is a giant creature that is enough to sensationalize the world, and how it can be just used as lace news, as people's talk after dinner. Compare the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan
None of the islanders shouted, "We found rats as big as cattle, and we have giant crocodiles here." "In the same nuclear leak, the islanders have not found a new species, and Chernobyl has appeared giant creatures." In the 1990s, a scientific expedition team entered the area to detect the indicators of nuclear leakage, but all nine people in the group were killed, which attracted the attention of many people at the time, so the army checked the area one by one
It is said that a huge rat was encountered, and after the suppression of fire, all the giant rats in this area were eliminated, because the giant rats were found at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, so it was called the "Chernobyl giant rat". But is this really true? After the Chernobyl accident, the plant did not stop working, and Unit III worked until 2000 before finally shutting down.
To stop the continuation of radioactive nuclear contamination, the Soviet government installed a concrete "lid" on the reactor where the explosion occurred, known as the "Chernobyl sarcophagus." Whether it is the staff of the nuclear power plant or the construction staff of the "sarcophagus", there are thousands of people working in the quarantine area for more than a decade, and they have never seen any giant rats. There is a misconception about the mutations produced by the exposure of living organisms to nuclear radiation, that is, nuclear radiation can make animals go berserk, just like the movies Godzilla and Raging Monsters.
In fact, the symptoms of nuclear radiation in animals are often fatal diseases, reproductive disorders, deformities, etc., and the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident are the best examples, they have died of illness or given birth to deformed children. Therefore, the possibility of animals becoming more exposed to nuclear radiation is very small, but instead there is premature aging or premature death of birth deformities. After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the deserted quarantine area became a paradise for wildlife.
Studies and observations have shown that the radiation damage to animals in the quarantine area is obviously much lighter than we expected, and the rats in the quarantine area have even adapted to radiation, and there is no difference between survival and reproduction and ordinary rats. Whether these mice with genetic mutations due to radiation actually existed at that time is unknown, but after some people entered the no-man's land of Che and Nobyl, they did not find a huge rat with a genetic process caused by radiation!
It can be argued that being said to be rats was most likely an official propaganda tool to prevent anyone from entering Chernobyl at that time, after all, the nuclear leak has already occurred, there is no human presence in no man's land, and to prevent humans from entering nuclear-contaminated areas, propaganda is also a white lie.