The 20th anniversary of the devastating accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant means no end to the suffering: Many people have died and are ill because of exposure to radiation. In times of climate change, the nuclear industry is trying to make a come-back. But nuclear radiation and wastes are no alternative to oil and coal, and cannot solve the climate change problem.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

About the accident and more:  http://www.rememberchernobyl.org/accident.htm

 http://www.chernobyl.info/

Photographs and many links at this Guardian newspaper website:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/0,,181325,00.html

"Twenty years on and the casualty figures from the nuclear disaster still don't add up," says Linda Walker, who has seen the severe health effects from the accident first-hand. Read her report here:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1743641,00.html

20 years on, no end in sight to the suffering:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1761438,00.html

UN accused of ignoring 500,000 Chernobyl deaths:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1739339,00.html

Women and ecology:  http://www.wloe.org/WLOE-en/information/ecology/eco-fs.html


The Other Report on Chernobyl (TORCH), PDF file:  http://www.chernobyl.info/resources/resource_en_95.pdf


Photos from Chernobyl: Fotos: Tschernobyl- Ausstellung in Berlin:  http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/archiv/22.04.2006/2469763.asp#

Motorcycle diary photos ( http://www.elenafilatova.com):
Chernobyl ghost town:  http://www.all4all.org/2004/03/609.shtml
 http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
 http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page2.html


Katastrophe? Welche Katastrophe?:  http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/archiv/22.04.2006/2469763.asp#

Die DDR reagierte mit West-Beschimpfungen auf den GAU im Bruderstaat – und Honecker empfahl, Salat zu waschen (Tagesspiegel, Berlin).

Alles nur halb so schlimm?  http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/nachrichten/64167.asp