Vic Sadot sent this along ~ No Nuke Blues - 2012 Fukushima Update Version
Saturday was a great enjoyable, yet solemn, action to participate in at Ocean Beach San Francisco! I was recruited by Cynthia Papermaster to be in a Code Pink contingent in the letter F of "FUKUSHIMA IS HERE" human-beach-mural. See also Fukushima Response Bay Area! This is the view from the helicopter out over the ocean looking back at us, those who gathered and formed on the beach to make this statement... a sunny tranquil day with with the winds and waves of Fukushima lapping at our shores... I had been singing "No Nuke Blues" with the new Fukushima verse a lot lately since Eric Golub and I have recorded a new version that we give away for free at SoundCloud.com/BroadsideBalladeer.
NO NUKE BLUES - Fukushima Update Version by Berkeley Broadside Balladeer. FREE MP3! Use it! The original “No Nuke Blues” was written in 1979 about the Three Mile Island accident on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The song was updated with a verse about the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and a new verse was written in 2011 about the ongoing Fukushima catastrophe. Here's the new Fukushima verse:
They say earthquakes and tidal waves messed up the best of plans!
There are deadly radiation leaks from Fukushima in Japan!
Contamination's spreading through the land, the air, and sea!
It's time to put an end to this insane nuke industry!
This version has Vic Sadot on vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano accordion. Eric Golub plays violin. This recording was done in Robot Envy Studio in Berkeley, CA with owner Sammy Fielding as sound engineer. http://soundcloud.com/broadsideballadeer/no-nuke-blues-2012-fukushima
More Fukushima news ~
German state-run TV: “Reports from Japanese journalists confirm what anti-nuclear activists fear: the situation in Fukushima is much worse than gov’t is letting on”
It is not only the Japanese government, but also international organizations – the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) – which are also playing down the effects of radiation exposure.
Tepco needs to devise a plan that, with government and community support, will allow it to release water into the ocean after treating it to bring contamination levels down to allowable levels for discharge, Barrett said.......The rainwater has now been contaminated by atmospheric radiation at the plant site,..........“Tepco engineers and operators were trying to do a good thing, but in reality they caused more of an environmental impact than if they hadn’t,” Barrett said. “Part of the problem is they have no overall water-management plan.”
N-levels soar in Fukushima well
The power company said 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting substances such as strontium were detected in water sampled Thursday from the well located about 15 meters from a storage tank, from which about 300 tons of high-level radioactive water leaked in August. The figure, a record high for water in the well, was more than 6,500 times the 61 becquerels found on Wednesday.With a comment rescue ~
TEPCO plans to pump up groundwater through different wells about 100 meters from the leaky tank for release into the sea before the water flows into damaged reactor buildings and become heavily contaminated with radioactive materials. But the plan could be changed, as the sharp increase in the levels of radioactive materials in the observation well suggests a spread of the contamination of groundwater in the area.
Everything about this reconfirms my belief in the hubris of homo sapiens sapiens. We're so screwed, thinking we can play with forces so great, and control them. We (and, sadly, most other lifeforms) will perish from our short-sighted blunders, and arrogance against the laws of physics and the forces of nature. We're a dumb species, for all of our brilliant potential. Sigh.
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