the friendly atom
I've been back from Chernobyl for nearly three weeks and to a surprising extent I'm still decompressing from the whole experience. Despite seeing so many powerful images over the last few years I didn't count on being quite so overwhelmed by the scale of it all. As an 18 year old I clearly remember the news reports of the catastrophic explosion in 1986 and the subsequent 25 year ban on Lamb and milk from parts of Wales, the Lake District and closer to home in the Yorkshire Da