Moving Back To Chernobyl

By Larry Frolick
· Illustration by Trudie Cheng
Field Notes · From the July/August 2005 magazine
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Otherwise, it’s quiet for a European suburb and traffic is slight, as few can afford cars. If you do spot some traffic, it is probably day labourers heading toward the Chernobyl nuclear complex. The authorities have begun hiring workers to re-brick the cordoned-off reactor. Locals say it’s started to leak again.
Frolick is an editor-at-large with Outpost magazine and the author of Grand Centaur Station (McClelland & Stewart, 2004). He lives in Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario.
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Tony WatkinMarch 11, 2012 19:01 EST

Hell to some, heaven to others....

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