Is it true that shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, an entire forest appeared to glow red?

even today while touring around the off-limits ghost town of Prypiat people are warned with geiger counter in hand, to avoid any vegetation or wood because they retain very high concentraions of radioactivity. even stuff like moss or lichen, which coinicentally reindeer as far away as norway snack on and become radioactive themselves.Is it true that shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, an entire forest appeared to glow red?
There are certainly ';hot spots'; around Chernobyl but I wouldn't have thought radiation would have caused discolouration. Part of the problem with radioactive contamination is that it is invisible to the naked eye.





Sorry, that sounds like a modern myth to me. As for the grazing animals though, that part is true. Pastures as far away as North Wales (UK) were affected.Is it true that shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, an entire forest appeared to glow red?
tree's did glow red, around the chernobyl site, to this day since my visit they still glow red.

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no... that is the news making a bigger deal and not statin the facts... the radioactive sites are ';hot spots'; but they never appear to glow red....