IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.

I am reading one of the few books that will distract me from the treasonous Republicans who are out to destroy our democracy. The book is Midnight in Chernobyl by Andrew Higginbotham, and it's 300-plus pages of the most frightening disaster of the 20th Century. I don't see how anyone after reading this can find any excuse for nuclear energy. It is terrifying what can happen during a nuclear accident. No one is safe from the invisible terror of radioactivity. In the case of Chernobyl, thousands died immediately or in subsequent years from cancer. Within days of the explosion, a radioactive cloud from the disaster site infected Scandinavia. Ever secretive Russia tried to hide the disaster, but couldn't and were forced to sacrifice their most brilliant citizens in an endless series of suicide missions to stem the disaster. Most amazing about this book is how Mr. Higginbotham can narrate so clearly, be so scientifically knowledgeable, and deal with such clear portrayals of the hundreds of persons affected by and involved in the catastrophe.  When a factory has an accident it affects the neighborhood and working force. When a nuclear plant fails, it affects the world as Chernobyl did. I personally find it terrifying to know that there are so many nuclear plants on earth, many on fault lines or beside water sources, including one not far from my Miami home in an area whimsically called Turkey Point (shown below). Other than Trump, nuclear energy is the most potentially destructive and unpredictable curse of our time.