I’ve been following Elena’s photo tour for some weeks now and have noticed some hardening of the attitudes she expresses in her captions. For instance, page 23 used to have a caption on its first picture explaining that the units the dose rate meter is reporting 81.6 of are microroentgens, aka micrograys, aka microsieverts if it’s external gamma irradiation, per hour.

Now that explanation is no longer given, perhaps because it made comparisons to natural hotspots too easy, cf. http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller12.html, which mentions a dose rate at Fountainhead Rock Place, Santa Fe — New Mexico, right? — that would make that sign read 86.8.

The third photo shows the exploded (not melted-down) plant through kilometres of air, too much air to allow gawkers in April 1986 to be line-of-sight irradiated, as the caption claims. Her photos just give the news, but she gives the petro-tax-dollar spin.

— Graham Cowan
Boron — fireproof fuel, real-car range, no emissions