A SHOCKED Cornelia Hesse-Honegger described the fruit flies she found after the accident at Chernobyl in 1986 as having the worst deformities she had ever seen. "Some had legs growing out of the antenna, others had growths on their eyes, colours varied and their wings were misshapen and curved." As a scientific illustrator trained at the Zoological Museum at Zurich University in Switzerland, Hesse-Honegger should know. She learnt her art documenting the changes in fruit flies when they have been fed chemicals.
She is only one of many curious characters touched by the global nuclear industry which Hall describes. ...
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