Chernobyl disaster isn’t over, it’s a forever event

Advocate Adi Roche says the UN’s Chernobyl Remembrance Day today attests to the worst nuclear disaster which is just a millisecond into the life of the pollution it unleashed    

THE Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986, recedes into the past, dissolves over time, but its effects continue to live among and within the people of the stricken regions. On this 31st anniversary of Chernobyl and the 6th anniversary of Fukushima we are reminded once more of the frailty and vulnerability of nuclear technology because of its dependence on human direction and its susceptibility to the unpredictable forces of nature.

The Chernobyl catastrophe, triggered by simple human error, and the Fukushima disaster, unleashed by tsunami and earthquake, both had devastating consequences for human life and for the planet.