Chernobyl - finally a solution?
As an announcement is made that the nuclear reactor site at Chernobyl is to be enclosed in steel, replacing the crumbling concrete casing, people are hoping that it is going to signal the end to the 1986 disaster.
Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has hailed the plan, calling the day of announcement to be when, “A solution to the problem that has long been called the Chernobyl problem was formally found”.
Reading around this subject in the absence of my students’ sports day today, I found the following, saddening and sobering account of the legacy of this disaster:
http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_chernobyl/
This new case for the site can’t fix the people already hurt, but maybe it can limit future pain and suffering here.
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