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Environment & Energy

JoseBalow

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4. The Chernobyl episode of "River Monsters" shows the giant fish flourishing there undisturbed

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:38 PM

Jun 9

The episode is from 2013, but I imagine entering the zone to be something like this clip. I'd probably do it, especially for a chance at catching a monster fish like he did!

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Chernobyl looking to develop tourism post-war [View all] NNadir Jun 9 OP

Tarkovsky's "Stalker" comes to mind JoseBalow Jun 9 #1

"I'd still love to check it out also, though." Caribbeans Jun 9 #2

Oh surely the fossil fuel industry can do better than a picture of an abandoned Ferris Wheel. Can't we have... NNadir Jun 9 #5

The reason that the planet is burning all over its surface, vast ecosystems are dying, is that people invest more... NNadir Jun 9 #3

The Chernobyl episode of "River Monsters" shows the giant fish flourishing there undisturbed JoseBalow Jun 9 #4

If one were to open a science book, one could learn that the "giant fish" were an endogenous species in Ukraine... NNadir Jun 9 #6

Yes, it must be quite confusing for them JoseBalow Jun 9 #9

I toured Chernobyl and Pripyat back in April 2018. sinkingfeeling Jun 9 #7

Cool. NNadir Jun 9 #8