Comments | irascignavojo: It is April 26 - 20 years after Chernobyl

irascignavojo

It is April 26 - 20 years after Chernobyl

Apr 26, 2006 23:12

...and I wonder how easily people forget, now that there's talk of new nuclear power plants, so we can have Chernobyl (USSR) and Three Miles Island (USA) and Tsuruga (Japan) - all three cases of something wich was supposed to happen "only once in 24,000 years" according to the IAEA report back then - more often.

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alives April 26 2006, 20:38:07 UTC

These pictures are so powerful and remind us of that terrible day.

Vickie

irascignavojo April 27 2006, 10:44:05 UTC

and your entry reminds me that I'm not alone among my LJ friends caring aabout other questions too, beside the HD-size with the new ipod or what flowers or teddybearnames we are...

zemarkable April 27 2006, 08:19:39 UTC

i had to drive right by three mile island the day after it happened.
weird minute fact about me

irascignavojo April 27 2006, 10:42:35 UTC

Silently I wonder... While I can remember... It happening just days after China Syndrome premiered, which I got to see, and just two days before a planned anti-nuclear (against a nuclear waste recycling and plutonium dump center on earthquake grounds) demonstration in the state capital... I was too young to attend back then, younger even than the last girl I kissed... err... I digress... I was just wondering how old you might have been back then. Because it seems ages ago, in the time of b/w pictures on real film rolls...

But silently. Ask not what you don't want to answer, so I'll not ask.

zemarkable April 27 2006, 10:47:14 UTC

*LOL*
it was late in 1978, and i had just turned 20 years old.

I'll correct you if I may irascignavojo April 28 2006, 02:59:57 UTC

It was on March 28th, 1979 and I was just about to turn old enough to confront my parents with an opinion of my own. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island

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