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Now plant life on the other hand is very adaptable. Even with the radiation not EVERY part of the wasteland should just be dead sandy desert.

Yup. Slovakian biologists have been trying to grow some plants in the Chernobyl and some of them are doing well. Flax namely, it has bigger seeds and more proteins when growing in irradiated soil:
http://www.chernobylproteomics.sav.sk/home/
http://www.chernobylproteomics.sav.sk/flax/