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Nuclear power plants in Switzerland

Field study in the environs of Swiss nuclear power plants

The Swiss “Commission for the Protection from Radioactivity” estimated in 1988 that as a result of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, the Swiss population would have 2 to 22 additional genetical anomalies for the next 100 years, and an additional 300 cases of cancer for the next 70 years. [ 1 ] In other words, the threat from the Chernobyl radioactive cloud was negligible.

My first collecting tour around the nuclear power plant Gösgen, in the canton of Aargau, alerted me to the possibility that terrible findings awaited me, as the deformities I detected with my binocular microscope were comparable to, and even
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Scentless plant bug from Würenlingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland
Left cover wing is blown up like a balloon
Watercolor, Zürich 1988 – 1989
 
 
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