On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster (in the relatively short history of nuclear power), at Chernobyl, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. This incident, while lacking the explosive power of Little Boy (the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945), it released 400 times the amount of radiation of a type more long-lived than the nuclear bomb.

In its initial high concentrations, the radiation was devastating. Twenty-eight workers, of 4,000 exposed, lost their lives to radiation sickness, one very painful way to die. Within a short time, another 4,000 people had contracted thyroid cancer, but only eight, all children, died. To the west of the plant, a huge conifer forest turned r

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