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ELI5: Why can't humans live in Chernobyl, but the wildlife there seems to be flourishing?

I recently watched a documentary on the wildlife in Chernobyl, and it seems like, especially, the wolves are thriving, but it cannot sustain human life. Why?
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Chernobyl can just as easily support human life as it can any other life. The difference being, we generally do not find the increased background radiation to be an acceptable risk. For many species of wildlife the background radiation will not decrease their overall survival rate by much, because life in the wild is pretty grim for most animals. Hell, chernobyl might even being doing the wildlife a favour in that the radiation has probably resulted in a higher than average mutation rate, which means evolution will be pushing the wildlife there harder to be the best fit for their environment.