Post_Apocalyptic Tourism...

[Javaman]

Chernobyl and Fukushima share wounds of disaster

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_chernobyl_to_fukushima

With the passage of time, Chernobyl has become well-explored territory. Guides take you through the nearest town, Pripyat, and they know exactly where to go — and more importantly — where not to.

Photograph Orange Forest from a distance, they warn. If you see a parking lot full of helicopters and emergency vehicles used to quell the reactor, don't go in. But it's fine to walk right up to the fence of The Sarcophagus, the reactor tomb with its concrete walls and roof, and its towering exhaust stack.

In Futaba, where Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is located, you are on your own.

Each step takes you onto uncharted ground. There are no guides. It is a deserted ghost town. Unlike Pripyat, an urban wilderness with trees growing through cracked asphalt, Fukushima is a fresh wound. The plant is still unstable. It's crisis still unfolding. Its only inhabitants are emergency police, in radiation gear, working under the constant threat of radioactivity and another explosion — two buildings have already been destroyed by hydrogen blasts.

[Taverner]

1. If this doesn't deter us from Nuclear Power

Then we really were meant to go extinct...