35 years

Today, 35 years have passed since the Chernobyl disaster. Though dramatized and distorted by HBO, reality was still serious, including the death of 31 people due to acute radiation sickness. In October 2016, Jon and I travelled to Chernobyl, a trip that I will always remember. Looking through my photos, it was almost like time travelling back to the Soviet Union. While the trip may have convinced me about the irrational standards by which nuclear safety is evaluated compared to basically any other technology,  I also understood more of the psychological roots of that irrationality and the political difficulties of ever making nuclear broadly accepted as a solution to climate change.