More importantly, Lovelock is incorrect if he asserts that numbers of plants and animals are higher within the Chernobyl-affected regions of Ukraine and Belarus – all scientific evidence suggests that most organisms that have been surveyed are negatively affected with lower abundances and biodiversity. See recent scientific publications by Anders Moller and Timothy Mousseau for some information on birds and insects. There is a very limited amount of data that directly demonstrates shortened lifespans. I have only seen such data for barn swallows, also published by Moller and Mousseau et al. But perhaps the best data in support of shortened life spans comes from the life expectancies observed by humans in these areas published by WHO.

Thus the proposition of creating a nuclear dump site in the Amazon must be completely tongue in cheek as it is fallacious on all fronts.