This is a powerful photo/text diary describing the countryside surrounding Chernobyl by a woman who mortorcycled through it.
Ghost Town
and they continually claim nuclear power is clean, safe energy...
sure... uh huh... right...
Lurkers... do these pictures look like it was safe to you?
The "Chernobyl experiment" has actually been successfully used to downplay the risks of the nuclear industry. I remember seeing the bike trip Website several years ago. A lot of people did. I think it was one of the most visited Websites on the net for a while.
I think the nuclear PR people got hold of it and decided to spin it fast. I can't be bothered to search now, but there was a slew of articles presenting the closed-off area around Chernobyl as a "wildlife panacea" - an area where nature thrived because humans had evacuated. The spin, of course, being that the radiation was irrelevant.
Recently, I have seen at least one article that sought to dispell this myth by showing the ecology of the area had been seriously disturbed.
I'll try to find some links and post them.
The "Chernobyl experiment" has actually been successfully used to downplay the risks of the nuclear industry. I remember seeing the bike trip Website several years ago. A lot of people did. I think it was one of the most visited Websites on the net for a while.
I think the nuclear PR people got hold of it and decided to spin it fast. I can't be bothered to search now, but there was a slew of articles presenting the closed-off area around Chernobyl as a "wildlife panacea" - an area where nature thrived because humans had evacuated. The spin, of course, being that the radiation was irrelevant.
Recently, I have seen at least one article that sought to dispell this myth by showing the ecology of the area had been seriously disturbed.
I'll try to find some links and post them.
OK...
But logic should work... if it's such a wildlife sanctuary as they now claim it is, why aren't the people moving back? There's a lot of prime real estate going unused...