Chernobyl Coverage

With the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident looming (22 days), there is a ton of coverage right now. Some of it is just basic re-hashing of the many different sets of facts (and non-facts) regarding the incident. However, there are some really well done and interesting pieces out there as well. BBC reporter Stephen Mulvey and photographer Phil Coomes are spending several weeks in the exclusion zone interviewing people and taking pictures for a big report to be on the anniversary date. While on their journey, though, they're keeping a diary. It's very interesting to follow them around and here their initial impressions of Chernobyl, Pripyat and other areas of the zone. You can read the diary here.

I'm particulary interested in hearing about the Chernobyl museum in Kiev:

There is also footage recording the heroic efforts of miners to tunnel under the reactor so that a heat exchanger could be built to halt the progress of the molten reactor core, if it burned its way through the plant's lower depths.

I think that, for the magnitude of its impact, Chernobyl is terribly undercovered by the media. Hopefully the anniversary will allow more people to see how dangerous nuclear energy really is.