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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sunday, April 2, 2006 photo, a child's bed lies in front of a wall with peeling paint in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 10
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Sunday, April 2, 2006 photo shows a monument to firefighters and emergency workers in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 11
A flower is seen between two solar cell panels of a not yet working photovoltaic plant to be inaugurated by German company Gehrlicher Solar in Puchheim near Munich, southern Germany, on June 16, 2011. Germany is the first major industrialised power to agree an end to atomic power in the wake of the disaster, the world's worst since Chernobyl in 1986, with tens of thousands of people living near Fukushima evacuated. The measures approved at the beginning of June 2011 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet focus on ways to fill the gap left by nuclear power, on which Germany relies for some 22 percent of its energy needs. This includes building new coal and gas power plants, although Berlin is sticking to its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels and by 80-95 percent by 2050. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo shows a Ferris wheel at a playground in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 4
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo shows graffiti on the walls of a building in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 3
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo shows numbered pegs in a cloakroom of a hospital in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 7
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo, a doll with a gas mask lies on the frame of a bed in the sleeping room of a kindergarten in the deserted town of in Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 8
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This April 2, 2006 photo shows an obstetric chair in front of a hospital in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 9
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo, portraits of ancient physicists and mathematicians hang on a wall in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 6
A cricifixis seen in front of Leibstadt nuclear power plant on May 22, 2011 near Leibstadt, northern Switzerland. The Swiss government is set to decide on May 25, whether to mothball the country's five nuclear power plants. After the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years ago at Fukishima, Switzerland was the first country on March 14 to announce that it had suspended plans to replace its ageing nuclear power plants. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
A Christian cross is seen in front of Leibstadt nuclear power plant on May 22, 2011 near Leibstadt, northern Switzerland. The Swiss government is set to decide on May 25, whether to mothball the country's five nuclear power plants. After the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years ago at Fukishima, Switzerland was the first country on March 14 to announce that it had suspended plans to replace its ageing nuclear power plants. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
A widow cries as she holds a photo of her dead son during the memorial ceremony in the industrial Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 26, 2011.The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine. AFP PHOTO /Alexander KHUDOTEPLY
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo, a bicycle lies on the ground in the deserted town of Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 3
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo, a gurney and other platforms lie in front of the entrance to a hospital in the deserted town of Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 9
