The Ballad of SFP4

In old Fukushima, Japan

The shit finally hit the fan;

A spent fuel pool

Which they tried to keep cool

Was sketchy, is how it began.

No one was worried at all

That the rods had no ceiling or wall;

The danger was greater

That sooner or later

The whole thing was going to fall.

At last, folks couldn’t ignore

What had been lying in store:

Then a quake came along

Sufficiently strong

To topple SFP4.

Collapse and worldwide privation

Resulted in upkeep cessation;

Rods elsewhere suspended,

Also untended,

Let loose lots more radiation.

Sixth extinction’s not fully explained

By the multiple rads that reigned;

As at Chernobyl,

Warming gone global

Finished off most of what life remained.

The UN on Radiation: No Worries

"Studies indicate minimal health risks from radiation in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster."

http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-s-doses-tallied-1.10686

H/T: Satori at Silco

Radiation helps make you strong,

It won’t hurt or do anything wrong;

UN health groups agree

That there’s nothing to see—

That is all. Now please move along.

“Few people will develop cancer as a consequence of being exposed to ... Fukushima .... based on two ... independent assessments.... by a subcommittee of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)....[and] the World Health Organization (WHO)”  *

UN health experts agree,

And they give it their guarantee;

Based on separate sources,

The UN endorses:

It’s good for both you and for me.

“Experts agree that there is unlikely to be a detectable rise in thyroid cancer or leukaemia, the two cancers most likely to result from the accident. “There may be some increase in cancer risk that may not be detectable statistically,” says Kiyohiko Mabuchi, who heads Chernobyl studies at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.”

When problems tend to go global,

State scientists may go ignoble:

Epidemiology

Downplays pathology,

Pretty much like at Chernobyl.

“People are “utterly fearful and deeply angry. There’s nobody that they trust any more for information....People want to know whether what we say is true.”

Well, there’s a big fucking surprise!

So far there’s been nothing but lies;

It’s not easy deceiving

Those set on believing

What they see with their own lying eyes.

 “In the year since the accident, the plant has been stabilized, and radioactive emissions have largely stopped.”

At first, it seemed like we'd flop,

But of course we got it to stop;

Questions on cancer?

You’ll be fine, there’s your answer—

It’s fixed, so go out and shop.

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*    “WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.”

http://www.who.int/about/en/

Helen Caldicott: “...nothing we can do.”

“We are now in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the sun; it is totally out of control, and there’s simply nothing we can do.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ITrXVJMKeQ

H/T: REDREAMER at Silco

According to Helen Caldicott,

We’re dealing with people who don’t know squat;

Between radiation

And global cremation,

The world will become two kinds of hot.

Extinction’s a dirty trick on us

We claim, as we blame and we kick and cuss;

Old Greeks, way ahead of us,

Taught about Daedalus,

But we failed the lesson of Icarus.

Fukushima sits on the ocean

Where earthquakes often cause motion;

What will I do

If the worst comes true?

I haven’t the foggiest notion.

If Japan went all fucko bazoo,

And your days left were only a few—

Say it happened right now:

How would you say ciao?

What do you think you would do?

When it comes time to give up the ghost,

There’ll be running from pillar to post;

It’s not much of a boast,

But to be doom engrossed

Should help handling it better than most.

Extinction for Geezers

“These Times of Declining EROEI”

http://conflicteddoomer.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/these-times-of-declining-eroei/

When you’re old, thoughts of death sway emotion,
So our species extinction potion
Doesn’t cause much more stress:
It's a bigger mess, yes, 
But you’re used to the basic notion.

M’kay?

Extinction is bad, m’kay?

It really can ruin a nice day;

Despite not much hope,

People still try to cope

Because it’s forever, they say.

Collapse will be bad, m’kay?

To make sense of so much dismay,

Many a human

Will think it’s acumen

To perceive a morality play.

Global warming is bad, m’kay?

But with cannibal life on its way,

It adds delicate char

To long pork tartar

For folks not already passe.

Doom’s going be bad, m’kay?

But it’s natural growth and decay;

So relax and accept,

And try to get prepped,

‘Cause it’s not going to go away.

Radiation Is Bad, M’kay?

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-20-16/nuclear-cheerleaders-use-voodoo-science-pretend-low-levels-radiation-are-safe

Radiation packs lots of clout—

Your cells are not nearly that stout;

The damage it brings

Is one of those things

Your body does better without. 

Fukushima Evacuation

“... If a significant fraction of the 400+ commercial reactors (all with pools) worldwide meltdown, that is an extinction event. As in, we’re all dead.”
http://fukushimaresponse.com/

Tsunami and earthquake vibration,

Workers try to fix the nuke station;

They find that they can’t

And abandon the plant:

Fukushima evacuation.

Reactor and pool degradation

Threatens the population;

Genetic mutation

Creates malformation:

Tokyo evacuation.

It’s not just one single location,

But everywhere in that nation;

Plants aren’t maintained,

Damage can’t be contained:

Japan evacuation.

Worldwide, plant disintegration

Spreads massive irradiation;

Humans find out what’s meant

By extinction event:

No evacuation.