40 Years Ago - Chernobyl
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I remember I was in Mexico tramping through ruins. I usually put news on "hold" when I'm traveling but there's some news you can't escape. I remember buying a newspaper in Spanish (which I can't read) and trying to figure out what a Chernobyl was and why it mattered.
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I was sailing towards graduation from high school without a lot of cares in the world. I remember it, but didn’t pay too much attention. It was only 7 years after 3 Mile Island.
A have an unusual memory regarding the latter. In 1994 I flew into Harrisburg PA for the first time. We flew over TMI and I saw two cooling towers with steam coming out and two that were just dead, corresponding to the reactor that went critical.
Next morning I’m listening to NPR in my hotel and there’s a story about TMI. It was the 15th anniversary of the melt down.
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