Tree bug from Gugele Canton Aargau, Switzerland   Biography   Themes de - en           nuclear power plants Gösgen and Leibstadt, in the canton of Aargau. In 1989 she continued her studies in the environs of the British nuclear reprocessing plant Sellafield. In the following years she concluded studies around the French nuclear reprocessing plant La Hague, the nuclear power plants Krümmel and Gundremmingen in Germany, and Three Mile Island in the U.S., as well as the Nevada atom bomb testing area and the Hanford plutonium factories in Washington State. In 1990 she traveled to Chernobyl itself. Based on her studies, she has concluded that normally working nuclear power plants — as well as other nuclear installations — cause deformities in Heteroptera leaf bugs, and are a terrible threat to nature. Her field studies were centered at first in her native Switzerland, since she felt she should Picture: Tree bug from Gugele Canton Aargau, Switzerland. The left wing is disturbed. Watercolor, Zürich 2000     < 1 2 3 4 5 6 >     Tree bug from Gugele Canton Aargau, Switzerland   Biography   Themes de - en