a disaster in slowmotion

[loukasenna]

I was just a kid when Chernobyl blew and my country and region ended up getting a good share of the radioactive fallout. What I mostly remember from that time is my mother's worry and how careful she became with our food and our being outside. I can't imagine how mothers in Japan are coping right now with the worry in a situation that's a thousand times worse than my mother's back then. And I wonder how much the authorities are hiding from them in order to keep everybody calm.

'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan and Fukushima: A 'nuclear sacrifice zone' by Dahr Jamail.