Vast Areas of Chornobyl-Affected Farmland in Ukraine Can Now Be Safely Farmed, Scientists Claim

Zoning of contaminated territory of Ukraine according to current and field study plot. Image credit: Smith et al., doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107698.

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Ukraine has developed a new method for the safe reassessment of farmland abandoned after the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986.