Effects of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents on ecosystems: current knowledge - Briefing note

In the mass media, the public was able to see both reports and works of fiction on the flora and fauna present in areas contaminated by the major nuclear accidents which occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on 26 April 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 11 March 2011. The observations presented in these reports raise questions about the effects of the contamination of these sites on fauna and flora. There has been a lot of research on some wild species in these areas, and this research is helping to better understand the effects of radioactive contamination on ecosystems - radioactive contamination that has been present on these sites for 35 years at Chernobyl and 10 years at Fukushima.