Chernobyl Sea’s Food VERY Differently
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As for the fish in the cooling pond, they’ve managed to sort out their ecology over the past quarter-century. In the words of Dr Malcolm, “life, uh… finds a way”. The life in the Chernobyl cooling pond, in particular some of the Wels Catfish living there, has found a way – to become very, very large. Don’t blame the still radioactive waters for this though, without natural predators and with plenty of food these catfish can grow large naturally. Or so we are told.
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As the Chernobyl cooling pond has been shown to be draining toxic Strontium 90 into the Dnieper River, plans are afoot to drain the pond itself, first by shutting off the pump that supplies it with water from the Pripyat River, and then allowing the pond to eventually evaporate.
(image via: Jennifer Boyer)
There are no plans to relocate the countless fish that inhabit the pond, however, nor are proactive steps being taken to protect human-populated areas downwind from toxic dust blown off the former pond in the future.

