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Nuclear power plants in Switzerland |
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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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Picture:
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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| Scentless plant bug from Würenlingen,
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Nuclear power plants in Switzerland |
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