Chernobyl diary (BBC) {20th anniversary of accident}

[eppur_se_muova]

A BBC News website team is in Ukraine to assess the legacy of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, 20 years after it spewed radiation across Europe.

Reporter Stephen Mulvey and photographer Phil Coomes will publish their reports and picture galleries closer to the anniversary itself on 26 April.
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He's so busy thinking about the future, I ask if he ever remembers Chernobyl. "We think about it, we talk about it, we draw lessons from it. We study it in institutes, and we are not the only ones," he says.

For a moment I see Chernobyl from the perspective of the nuclear power community - not (or not only) as a environmental and humanitarian disaster - but as a threat to the future of the industry
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4843316.stm

(a long, bloglike article.)

[phantom power]

1. I bet Elena's feeling like they ripped off her concept.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Poor girl

:nopity: