“The truestoryof Chornobyl, ” says Ronald Chesser, aradioecologist at TexasTechUniversity in Lubbock who carriesoutstudiesinthe Exclusion Zone, “is the human tragedy.”
Radioecologist Nick Beresford from Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in Lancaster explained that once in soil, caesium will become bound to mineral components, which limits its uptake into plants.