Mankind is very entangled in nuclear energy. On the one hand, human beings are facing a crisis situation in which traditional energy sources are powerless (after all, the resources of coal and oil are very limited), on the other hand, human beings love and hate nuclear energy - the so-called love is because nuclear energy can provide a lot of energy to maintain human industrial development, and hate because nuclear waste, if not disposed of carefully, is likely to bring irreversible harm to human beings.
In the history of mankind, there was a nuclear leak at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union, which has led to the fact that for many years, human beings have been afraid to set foot in this place due to the dangers of nuclear radiation. After all, nuclear radiation is very harmful to the human body, and if you are young, your chromosomes are susceptible to changes due to nuclear radiation, which is also very bad for heredity.
However, there is a legend that the animals of Chernobyl gradually adapted to nuclear radiation in this area, and because of the effects of nuclear radiation on genes, many animals have superpowers. So, what's going on here?
1. The embarrassment of the Soviet Union
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located on the territory of Ukraine. During the Soviet era, the Soviets built a nuclear power plant here.
In fact, objectively speaking, the Soviet Union did have a great degree of scientific and technological progress during the Cold War, but because the Soviet bureaucrats in charge of science and technology management had the idea of quick success, this led to continuous accidents in the Soviet Union in science and technology: for example, the Soviets had a record of astronauts dying in their lives. The accident at the nuclear power plant was actually more due to man-made accidents: because of poor management, the technology was not up to par and the project was forcibly carried out, which led to the explosion of the fourth reactor of the nuclear power plant and the release of a large amount of radioactive materials. In addition, after the nuclear leakage, the contamination spread to many parts of northern Europe.
The soil and water sources and even the vegetation in the area around the plant have been severely affected. However, after the accident broke out, the relevant Soviet authorities urgently relocated the residents around the nuclear power plant, and only then did they try to prevent the situation from continuing to develop into a more serious trend. And almost overnight, the area became a ghost town - the houses on the streets of the town were still there, but there was not a single human figure. Such an area is actually very suitable for making some supernatural movies.
2. Superpowers
Humans could leave the region with the help of Soviet units, but animals in the region could not. In this area, there are wolves, wild horses, wild boars, and bats – yes, bats covered in viruses. Originally, human life objectively had a restraining effect on the reproduction of these animals. But with the departure of humans, the animals of this region began to dominate the region.
In 2014, a group of scientists surveyed the area and found that wolves were the dominant animals in the area. For this reason, scientists are curious: that is, after so many years of nuclear radiation and several generations of reproduction, has the chromosomes of the wolf pack changed?
Scientists then took some samples from the wolves and found that in the more than 20 years from the 1980s to 2014, when the accident broke out, the wolves had reproduced and evolved to adapt to nuclear radiation. For humans and other animals outside this region, there is no doubt that this ability is not possessed, so the scientific community believes that this can indeed be understood as a superpower.
In addition, the genetic changes of wolf packs also provide important information for human biological research.