Schloss Auerbach in the foreground is only 14 km in a direct linear distance to the atomic power station Biblis. That’s about 25km from where I live. In the other direction there is the atomic power station Philippsburg, that’s 35 km away from (direct line). … Continue reading Living in the shadow
In the distance is the – now inoperative – nuclear power plant Biblis.
In the middle distance is the old fortress of Auerbach, originally built by Charlemagne. It’s lasted for over 1000 years. I wonder which one of the two complexes will still be there, another 1000 years hence.
We all need power. Hence there are power stations. This particular one – a bare 40km as the crow flies from where I live – is a nuclear one. It’s more than half an hour’s drive away, on clear days it kind of looms on the horizon but I had given it little thought until the earthquake and tsunami and consequent radiation at Fukushima happened.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Yard.
For a more traditional understanding of the word yard, you can also look at my One Word Sunday contribution from today. It is, however, just as ugly (if not as dangerous).
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