Chernobyl

This day is etched in the memory. It’s 20 years ago today that reactor number 4 at the Chernoblyl nuclear plant exploded. It occurred at 1.23am local time. The number of victims is very much in dispute, anything from around 50 to hundreds of thousands, including those who will die in the future as a result of the fallout. The radiation cloud spread widely over Scandinavia, UK Europe and parts of North America. I remember sick children being sent to clean environments like Australia to recouperate.

We may never know it’s full effects with any sort of accuracy. Although wildlife is defying the radiation, it will be thousands of years before the area will once again be safe, a frightening prospect.