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You are here: Home / Politics / An Unexamined Scandal / Fukushima Forever Cemetery Sings

Fukushima Forever Cemetery Sings

by $8 blue check mistermix|  July 23, 20139:57 am| 16 Comments

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Fukushima is leaking radioactive material into the ocean, the “containment” pool there rises and falls with the tides, and TEPCO is, as always, minimizing. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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  1. 1.

    Carnacki

    July 23, 2013 at 10:04 am

    And a new Godzilla movie is in the works. Coincidence? Or are we being prepared by our secret rulers for the disaster that lies ahead?

  2. 2.

    Belafon

    July 23, 2013 at 10:14 am

    “Lat[h]er, rinse, repeat.”
    If you do it in the water there, you won’t have to do it for to long.

  3. 3.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 23, 2013 at 10:19 am

    I saw something about that. Sucks. Royally.

    Of course, it is a given that humans are so hellbent on destruction that they are doomed to extinction.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    July 23, 2013 at 10:33 am

    @Linda Featheringill: It’s hard to think of a way to rectify humankind’s impact on the global ecosystem that doesn’t involve a massive die-off of one sort or another. Worse: much of the poison we leave behind will stick around and be toxic for a long, long time.

  5. 5.

    sparrow

    July 23, 2013 at 10:56 am

    @CaseyL: In Biology/Medicine it’s called a “self-limiting infection”, where the invader bacterium or virus will basically be walled off, consume resources until exhausted, and then die off entirely thus ending the infection…

    Humans are a self-limiting infection of the Earth. Either we purposely reduce our birthrate and numbers as soon as possible, or mother nature/the universe/reality will do it for us, in a violent way.

  6. 6.

    Montysano

    July 23, 2013 at 11:58 am

    @CaseyL:

    Worse: much of the poison we leave behind will stick around and be toxic for a long, long time.

    As George Carlin noted, in what is maybe the most brilliant of his many brilliant pieces, the planet will be just fine.

  7. 7.

    Bendal

    July 23, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    A not so minor comment. The “containment” pool you mention that is ‘rising and falling with the tide’ is an underground storage trench used to hold contaminated water used in cooling one of the reactors until it can be treated. In nuclear parlance, a “containment pool” is the water bath spent reactor rods are placed in to dissipate their heat as the remaining nuclear fuel in them decays.

  8. 8.

    LanceThruster

    July 23, 2013 at 2:23 pm

    Mah. Thur. Fah. Curse.

  9. 9.

    Fred Fnord

    July 23, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    Fukushima Forever Cemetery Sings

    Which puts me in mind of another headline, lo these many years ago: ‘Gorbachev Sings Tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!‘

  10. 10.

    mere mortal

    July 23, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    The ocean is probably the absolute best place for any radioactive leak to go. The water directly around the plant will be dangerous (hopefully not any beach-goers there anyway), but otherwise it should quickly disperse and be indistinguishable from background radiation.

    This is far, far better than stories I had read soon after the disaster, where radiation might be making it into groundwater / drinking water supplies.

  11. 11.

    tones

    July 23, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    At least the EPA has changed the safety limits so there is no longer any reason to worry…
    A few years ago yeah, this would be deadly dangerous.
    Now, it is within safe margins…
    yay.

  12. 12.

    Cermet

    July 23, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    Yet we all want energy, cars, AC in the summer, heat in the winter, power and (I, too) bitch about AGW … the Candu reactor is very safe compared to any other existing reactor by far and helps with AGW but do we encourage that design? No. Dumb.

  13. 13.

    steve s

    July 23, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    Coal plants produce more radiation than nuke plants do

    We shouldn’t be doing either. In a sane country, we’d have spent the Iraq war money on enormous solar thermal plants and storage facilities. Could have shut down every last coal plant in the US.

  14. 14.

    Just One More Canuck

    July 23, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    Somewhat ot, but there’s a documentary called “Chopin Saved My Life” (aired on TVO here in Ontario) – it’s about two young pianists who got through terrible events in their lives by playing Chopin’s Ballade No 1. One of the subjects was a 15 year old girl from Sendai who takes solace from the devastation in the music

  15. 15.

    billB

    July 23, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    AND here in Oregon the Rethuglican Newspaper is running a multi-day attack on our massive new
    [Awesome] wind farm.

    All for one and one for Mittens RMoney.

    And now we have seen that the Jap. Gov. is endangering the world [again] and the UN should step in with a multi-national crisis team to stabilize
    the poisoning of the entire pacific ocean.

    Maybe Hopey Obamster could step in…. Seriously someone tell Michelle, she will get something done. She will be retired in Hawaii which will be washed with Jap. Gov. radiation for decades.

  16. 16.

    Ben

    July 23, 2013 at 11:05 pm

    @billB:
    Your ideas do not intrigue me, and I wish only to hear of your love for pie.

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