He is right, that part of the exclusion zone is relatively harmless. Greenpeace has the coordinates in their report, if i am not too far off people still eat mushrooms from such conditions.

The story here seems to be tanks driving off the roads, not the digging at the camp site.

I recall seeing a heatmap of residual radiation levels produced in (I think?) 2015 and the reported location of the trenches was very close to the hottest part of it.

I posted the sources in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37182828#37183914

Do you have another position for the trenches?

Your comment says 26km distance from the plant, I can only say that this really doesn't look like 26km.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1511709947809181698?s=20

Exactly. Dig a ditch and tell me you don't taste and smell dirt. Even in wet soil, you can't dig a ditch without ingesting some of it.

Maybe not enough to hurt you, but that depends entirely on how spicy it is.