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From: Sun Tzu12/1/2025 10:27:45 PM
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S fungus that grows inside the reactor walls at Chernobyl is hypothesized to harvest radiation (cosmic rays, UV and gamma rays, radioactive...) to grow and could be used as a radiation shield. Scientists have no idea how or even what it is doing.

"clinging to the interior walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth, scientists have found a strange black fungus curiously living its best life.

Related: Worms at Chernobyl Appear Mysteriously Unscathed by Radiation

That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis."
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