Chernobyl: 28 Years Later

Energy facilities are the main subject matter of my project, and in turn I have visited many places around the UK to see how they disrupt the landscape around them visually. But in this instance, there has been an actual disruption of the landscape, and on a large scale; Chernobyl's nuclear disaster rendered the place uninhabitable. The nuclear disaster happened just over 25 years ago, and to this day it remains a desolate and empty space.

Here you can see in the image above, the remains of life, an eerie shadow of what was once there. But it stands to reason that our destructive nature can bring upon grave danger to life surrounding these energy facilities, and the fragility of which we operate within these sciences makes me uneasy. There are instances of these types of things happening again, in Fukushima as an example. 

The facility lost stability on the 26th of April 1986, and it was the biggest disaster Ukraine had had in years. Many particles spread into the atmosphere after the event took place, putting the neighbouring towns and cities in jeopardy. Such a disaster would not be witnessed in a coal power plant or other through uses of other green energies. We have sabotaged our future with these structures that obscure the natural view and cause potential harm to those involved with these projects. There are claims that we have put measurements in place to prevent this from happening again, but we have witnessed that this isn't entirely the case yet.