Yes, there are giant catfish in Chernobyl's cooling pond – but …
2016年6月23日 · Among the hefty residents of the Chernobyl pond are wels catfish (Silurus glanis), a species known to reach gargantuan proportions across much of its range.
What We Know About the Chernobyl Animal Mutations
2024年7月18日 · Radionuclides in water have settled into the sediment in lakes. Aquatic organisms are contaminated and face ongoing genetic instability. Affected species include frogs, fish, crustaceans, and insect larvae. While birds abound in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, they are examples of animals that still face problems from radiation exposure.
Chernobyl Giant Catfish in Nuclear Cooling Pond - Is it a Mutation?
Two-headed wolves, enormous snakes, mutant fish from Chernobyl rivers and other creatures are thought to inhabit the exclusion zone. One of the most known monsters is catfish from Chernobyl cooling pond. Without doubt, radiation affects plants and animals that live in …
Wels catfish - Wikipedia
The wels is the largest freshwater fish in Europe and Western Asia, only exceeded by the anadromous Atlantic and beluga sturgeon. Most adult wels catfish are about 1.3–1.6 m (4 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in) long; fish longer than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) are a rarity.
11 Facts About the Animals of Chernobyl - Mental Floss
2023年6月7日 · Wild animals in Chernobyl are flourishing within the contaminated region; puppies roaming the area are capturing the hearts of thousands. Tourists who have watched the critically acclaimed HBO...
Are the Radiation Levels in the Cooling Ponds of Chernobyl …
2023年4月4日 · A 1996 study on the Chernobyl catfish raised the alarm when it found that the fish in the cooling pond exhibited genetic damage related to the concentration of Cesium-137. However, a newer study conducted in 2018 did not find this to be the case.
Chernobyl Causes Gigantic, Mutant Catfish – But Is It Hope
2015年9月19日 · According to recent scientific research, the waters of Chernobyl have been plagued with radionuclides ever since the explosion. In turn, this has strangely increased the size of catfish within the Ukraine. Radionuclidse are atoms …
Impact of Environmental Radiation on the Health and …
2018年7月20日 · Fish are considered to be the most radiosensitive aquatic organisms and have been highly exposed in freshwater systems at Chernobyl since the accident on the 26th of April 1986. At Fukushima, both freshwater and marine fish …
DNA damage and radiocesium in channel catfish from chernobyl
In general, catfish from the cooling pond exhibit greater genetic damage, and the amount of damage is related to the concentration of radiocesium in individual fish. Genetic damage is primarily in the form of DNA strand breaks, with few micronuclei being …
The Chernobyl accident of 1986 resulted in contamination of many bodies of water around Europe. Three branches of radioactive plume dispersed radionuclides over northern, southern and western Europe. Radioactivity from man-made nuclides increased considerably in freshwater bodies of Scandinavian