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[jetsetdork]

http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_chernobyl?GT1=8019

This is pretty hard to watch, but it's something that people have to see.

love,
ern

Comments

[hakerh]

That was intense. Those interview comments especially... That last one, with the woman with the dosimeter... Jesus. I'm gonna go hug the cat for a while.

[misshapenmind]

I agree that the images and the story are what we should see, but I'm not sure what the lesson should be. It's definitely not that nuclear energy is bad, because it's really the cleanest energy source we have that doesn't destroy the environment... except when people make mistakes with it. Actually, I think this is a lesson that governments and companies really need to enforce regulations, especially about safety. There was an unforgiving measure of human stupidity that caused this accident, and so many people are still paying for it. It's so sad, and it's all the USSR's fault (or whatever governing body was in charge of that reactor and then didn't own up to the problem right away), and it could happen elsewhere if people with power become lax.