Little Dogs Studies on: The Nuclear Tourist

On April 26, 1986, during a routine test, a powerful surge caused an explosion in one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Power Plant (CPP)in Pripyat, Ukraine. At that time, the Chernobyl incident such as that of the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster that took place in Pennsylvania. This explosion is one of the only two disasters that have ever been classified as Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale(INES), the highest possible rating in terms of destruction.

Experts state today that there are five sieverts of radiation that are powerful enough to kill you. So I was curious to see the reading of The Nuclear Tourist by George Johnson.

28 years after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the zone, all but devoid of many individuals, has been seized and occupied by wildlife. There are bison, boars, moose, wolves, beavers, and falcons. In the ghost town of Pripyat, eagles roost atop deserted Soviet Era apartment blocks. The horses were let loose here a decade later after the accident, when the radiation was considered to be tolerable, giving them the capability to grant more that a thousand square miles to roam.

There is something deeply rooted in the human soul that draws us to sites of unimaginable disasters, such as that of Pompeii, Antietam, Auschwitz, and Treblinka- all quiet now. But the history of the explosion that took place many years ago in this area—still remains unknown and tragic, less fortunate as it seems