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| March 2011: Smoke rising from Unit 3 of the Fukushima nuclear plant (photo: AP) |
In nuclear energy and its catastrophes, two themes constantly return: eternity and truth.
I went to see the exhibition of photographs of Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica at the Saint-Gervais Theatre [Geneva]. “It is estimated,” he writes, “that the most contaminated areas, which cover 260,000 square kilometers (nearly the size of Italy) will return to normal radioactivity levels in 100,000 years.”
Nearly 27 years have passed, with 99,973 remaining. Nuclear energy is eternity. Eternity favors the truth.
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