system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Having just watched a documentary on Chernobyl and it's condition today, why is it that vegetation seems to be mostly unaffected by the fatal radiation which would kill us?
gpt
People could live without too much trouble in the Chernobyl area, just as plants can.  The higher level of radiation means there's a higher chance of dying of cancer; not drastically higher, but enough that nobody wants to live there.