| October, 1999 -- Gary Knight, a photojournalist based in London, spent half a year documenting the often-alarming conditions within the nuclear power industry in Europe and the former Soviet Union. He encountered evidence of breaches of safety regulations, drug addiction and alcoholism among key workers and flawed safety procedures.
The haunting images in this photographic essay are a reminder — as was the Sept. 30, 1999 accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant — of the perilous nature of nuclear power.
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Chernobyl: The legacy