Chernobyl: Hunting in packs
A white-tailed eagle soared in the crisp winter air. The majestic bird was hunting for fish in the giant cooling pond whose waters doused the inferno that followed the world’s worst nuclear accident, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine in 1986. The water in the pond was radioactive. The fish in the pond – including the giant male catfish that tour guides had named Gosha -- were radioactive. And so, presumably, was the eagle.
