Chernobyl's harvest to clear radiation from 70,000 sq. miles

Radioactive contamination in Belarus, the country hardest hit by the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, is severe enough to prevent safe cultivation of food for 300 to 600 years. Through repeat harvests of ethanol feedstock, however, Irish company Greenfield thinks that the land will be safe for food production in as little as 60 years.

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