This photo of the nuclear power station of Biblis is five years old. Three of the four towers were still standing, two were demolished in 2023, one in 2025, and the last one came down in January this year. In the background are a new source of power, wind turbines.
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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).
