Tree bug, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland   Nuclear power plants in Switzerland   Themes de - en           worse than the ones I had found in Sweden and in the Ticino, in the fallout areas of the Chernobyl radioactive cloud. [ 2 ] I started with a systematic research project around the Gösgen nuclear power plant and detected terribly crippled insects with short legs, disturbed feelers, or wings of uneven lengths. I made watercolor sketches of the insects I had collected in my studio. I was shocked not only the severity of the morphological disturbances in the insects and plants I found, but also by their prevalence. I became more and more skeptical about scientific assertions concerning the innocuousness of nuclear power plants. I believed that more thorough research was called for in this region, which has five nuclear power plants as well as the nuclear research plants Gösgen, Beznau I Picture: Tree bug, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Right tip of the neck plate is flattened Watercolor, Zürich 1990     < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >     Tree bug, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland   Nuclear power plants in Switzerland   Themes de - en