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The Black Herb

JL;DR SUMMARY Alexander Nazaryan reflects on his journey to Chernobyl, highlighting personal and professional insights. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Soviet HistoryJournalismPersonal NarrativeChernobylNuclear DisasterNew Safe ConfinementReactor No. 4LocavoreExclusion ZonePower Plant

Places mentioned

Chernobyl, Kyivshchyna, Ukraine
"I had come to Chernobyl as a professional journalist, to report on the New Safe Confinement, a massive hangar-style structure, paid for by the Europeans, that would cover the power plants ruined reactor No. 4 and its lethal remains for the next century."
Ukraine
"Because if theres one place that should absolutely not embrace the locavore revolution, at least not for the next 30,000 years or so, it is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, on the border of Ukraine and Belorussia."
Belarus
"Because if theres one place that should absolutely not embrace the locavore revolution, at least not for the next 30,000 years or so, it is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, on the border of Ukraine and Belorussia."

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