Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Selfie

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Selfie

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Atlas Obscuria has published a fascinating story about this picture of an elephant foot of lava -- radioactive corium -- taken in 1996 at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. It takes awhile to get to the selfie explanation, but this is a...

Growing Up in a Nuclear World

Growing Up in a Nuclear World

Being a kid growing up in a nuclear world meamt fear of total thermo-nuclear annihilation.   Yesterday, I read a story in the New York Times about a nuclear plant in Ohio with a 30-foot hairline crack in a reactor. All I could think of was, I really wish I could...

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