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"Switching from coal to nukes, is like giving up smoking and taking up crack." ~ Dan Becker, Sierra Club Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Keb Mo, and Ben Harper have re-made the classic song For What It’s Worth into an anti-nuclear anthem. Watch the video of the performance here, and go to www.nukefree.org   April 26th, 2006 was the 20th anniversary of the most horrific nuclear accident in history, when the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine blew up during a routine test, blasting the 1,000-pound roof of the main reactor building into the air and spreading radioactive waste over much of the northern part of the country and nearby Belarus. Some parts of the Chernobyl region will be contaminated with hazardous levels of radioactivity for 100 years or more, and residents have suffered from high levels of cancerous tumours and other birth defects. Photographer Robert Knoth has documented some of the victims in a photo essay. To see more, click on the picture.
 CHERNOBYL LEGACYBy Paul Fusco On April 26th, 1986, Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4 unleashed a thoroughly modern plague that emptied cities, condemned entire regions, and seeped invisibly into the bodies of those exposed to it's destructive presence. Photographer Paul Fusco faces the dark legacy of Chernobyl, focusing on the horrifying human consequences of the event that is now 20 years into the past. Fusco's work forces us to remember an important nightmare, that we would forget at the peril of our morality and our future.
Please Watch This Important Photo essay, and remember WHY WE MUST STOP THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY! Click Here To WatchI am become death, the destroyer of worlds ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, Father of the atomic bomb |
