Rust and Decay

I found the following article and photographs interesting, as I've always been attracted to rust and decay as an aesthetic, and nothing is more in a state of neglectful chaos than the former nuclear plant in Chernobyl. The part where the author had to go through three different radiation checks was surreal, to say the least. It's weird, because, we used to go out to Rancho Seco when I was a kid, to swim or canoe in the lake that surrounds the nuclear plant. Never once did I question what might be in the air or water, or what might happen if there was an accident, or what the long-term ramifications were. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.