"The short wave matter
we can't see
Those distant suns
what are they to me
The radiation
falling over me"
Good wiki entry now on Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear accident
"I Am Kloot"
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by Fred Bortz, author of Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future (Twenty-First Century Books, 2012)
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