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Fukushima

staggered by a blow

six hundred million times more

fierce than the first time

 

man delivered a sun

to bloom and scorch upon her loam

untold shadows

 

no fire this time in shattering waves

though now, as then, so many souls

vanished from this tangent

 

and the swallowed star,

made on earth, extracts the same

deadly half-life toll

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"We Reap What We Sow" - Japans Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2011

"We Reap What We Sow" - Japans Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2011



The recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in the wake of the recent earthquakes and tsunami shows what folly man has to think that he can contain forever and in all eventualities the power of nuclear energy.

No one thought of the force of a tsunami wave breaking the cooling system on th...

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