There is a radioactive sediment layer from Chernobyl in Loch Ness

Did you know that a layer of sediment beneath the waters in Loch Ness is radioactive due to a fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986?

Professor Theo Svenson, pointed out: “Our research has shown that the nature of Loch Ness plankton and bottom-feeders may be very different to the known species found elsewhere on our planet. This could be due to background radiation or other factors we do not yet fully understand. Certainly, traces of Chernobyl radiation and other unique gamma sources have been found in the sediment that lies at the loch’s bottom and this may have an effect upon the DNA structures of its largely captive fish and eel stocks”.