{"id":198726,"date":"2025-12-23T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:38:11","slug":"the-strange-radiation-eating-organisms-found-at-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198726\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange radiation-eating organisms found at Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went horribly wrong. A massive explosion ripped through Reactor 4, spewing radioactive poison across the sky. Poison clouds drifted over Europe, forcing 1,16,000 folks from their homes overnight.<\/p>\n<p>It spread global fear of nukes, redeveloped safety rules, and left a 1,000-square-mile &#8220;Exclusion Zone&#8221; that&#8217;s still off-limits. Animals roam free now, but radiation lingers like a ghost. But apart from animals, some bizarre adapted creatures have also developed near the site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75975,122396,122397,2481,111,139,69,122398,147],"class_list":["post-198726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-chernobyl","tag-chernobyl-fungi","tag-cosmic-fungi","tag-fungi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-radiation-eating-fungi","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}