oaknet wrote:
] There is clearly a motorcylce in the photographs (wherever
] they were taken). I would be interested in seeing evidence of
] the changes to the website.
]
] But more important, the images of Chernobyl are no less
] disturbing whether taken from a motorcyle, a car, or a bus.

I agree. I went back and looked at the site and saw that picture. I have no idea who to beleive, but in any event it doesn't really matter. Whether or not she was riding a motorcycle really has little impact on my interest in that site.

] I do note however that a leading Green has advocated nuclear
] power in the last few days, and that this will spark a frency
] of pronuclear activity, even to the point to saying that
] Chernobyl was an acceptable risk, which it clearly is not.

Chernobyl was not an acceptable risk.

An OECD expert report on it concluded that "the Chernobyl accident has not brought to light any new, previously unknown phenomena or safety issues that are not resolved or otherwise covered by current reactor safety programs for commercial power reactors in OECD Member countries."

(In other words, they should have known better then to do things that way.)

A "Chernobyl like accident" cannot occur in a modern reactor because modern reactors are based on a completely different designs that simply work in a different way and experience different kinds of failures. Whether the risks associated with those failures are acceptable is an unrelated, but important, question.

RE: Boing Boing: 'Girl Photoblogs Chernobyl on Motorcycle' thing a fraud