Chernobyl has developed into a major reserve, and an outstanding scientific laboratory for understanding radiation effects.
Now we know - anyone with a modicum of education anyway - that many scientists live and work there. I wrote about one in this space: Where I Work: Chernobyl.
We've already destroyed hundreds of thousands of square miles of pristine wilderness to render them into industrial parks to satisfy the preternaturally stupid, but Chernobyl, as a largely undisturbed ecological zone, regrettably recent disturbed by the Russian aggression financed by that wind and solar hellhole, Germany, doesn't need to be further fucked up by morons.
The reserve hosts many rare and endangered species, which thrive there thanks to the virtual absence of humans. They include European bison, Przewalski horse, Moose, Brown bear, Golden eagle, and White-tailed eagle. It is home to the world's largest population of the European pond turtle. According to PSRER administration, there are 7 reptile, 11 amphibian, 46 mammal, 213 bird and 25 fish species. Of those, 70 are listed in the International Red Book and the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus. Flora includes 1251 registered plants, which is more than two-thirds of the flora of the country, and 18 of the plant species are listed in the Red Book.[3]
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
Why fuck up more land for the stupid bourgeois wind fantasy that's killing the planet with complacency.
There are oodles upon oodles of scientific papers on the subject of the exclusion zone, it's flora and its fauna, but I chose a Wikipedia page because I know the scientific literacy of anti-nukes is low, and a scientific reference is beyond their reading level. I also readily understand their hatred of science.
In any case, one would need to be a total moron, totally uninformed, totally vapid to compare Chernobyl to climate change.
Regrettably, there are too many people with exactly that mentality. One thing is very clear, exactly like their intellectual equivalents, anti-vaxxers, anti-nukes have very selective attention, elevating the trivial over the real.

These idiots have no fucking idea about comparisons between the death toll at Chernobyl, about which they've stuck their brainless heads up their asses for the last 38 years, and the death toll in Pakistan
last month from climate change.
The sad thing about ignoramuses is they're not only loud, they're persistent and they're unashamed of demonstrating exactly how little they know, how little they care, and frankly, how bat shit crazy they are.