Ukrainian Will

摘要

Chernobyl is rightly held up as the global civil nuclear power industry's low moment, when a series of human error and organisational failures created radioactive contamination on a continental scale. Belarussian agriculture remains heavily affected to this day (METFebruary 2012 ppl6-9). Twenty-six years after the incident, I visited the site on 27 November, on a press tour to the construction of the new shelter. Now, a generation after the explosion, the fear and the anger of the people that must have come in its aftermath, was long gone. In fact, the few people I talked to on my trip seemed proud of their country in spite of its troubles, and confident that Ukraine is on its way up.