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Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, U.S.
In the summer of 1991 I started my field study in the environs
of nuclear power plant Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania,
which suffered through a near atomic disaster on March
26, 1979. Thousands of people were irradiated, but they
were only notified two days after the incident [ 2 ] , and
even then only 2,500 children and pregnant women were evacuated.
After the accident many people suffered from a kind of
sunburn, lost their hair and teeth, and died many years
later of cancer. Their suffering as a consequence of the
accident is still not recognized. When I arrived in 1991
the cleanup was still going on, with some serious incidents
occurring during my study [ 1 ] [ 3 ].
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Ambush bug near Three Mile Island, USA
Ventral: the left side front foot is damaged; the right side
one has a dark spot, as well as Watercolor, New Cumberland
/ Zürich 1991 |
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| Ambush bug from Hill Hess Road
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