New York Times: The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau's radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest here, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
As he stopped to examine a spider web on a tree branch, the display on the device showed 25 microsieverts an hour. That is typical, Dr. Mousseau said, for this area not far from Novoshepelychi, one of hundreds of villages that were abandoned after radioactive fallout from the 1986 reactor explosion at the plant rendered a large...