POEM: Fermi Too

From Detroit to
I drive by and by
Monroe's Fermi 2
Nuclear waste tower
Falling over
Penning only
A plume of
In place of this
A taking
Having called for its decommissioning
Offers no comfort
Only one more thing to mourn
Sanity unheeded
As the tsunami of
Overtakes us
A graveyard of scant profits
Where we stood
Where we lived
And worked
No re-
As even the of destruction
And his unwitting fallowers
Dare not rejoice

Today is the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima plant ongoing disaster.  I joined some folks outside the Japanese consulate in Detroit.  The Japanese consulate and would not let us in the renaissance center where the consulate is located.  We wanted to deliver a letter the of due to the Fukushima meltdowns, and deliver a call to remediate additional harms as this disaster continues to unfold.  We protested outside and read the letter publicly.  There were as many and private personnel as their were , so no one was harmed in the protesting of this mega-disaster.  If only such well-resourced public safety extended to plants.

I wrote this poem a couple of months ago, spurred on by driving past the Fermi 2 nuclear reactor in Monroe, MI, on my way to from Detroit.  I've driven through this nuclear kill zone many times, and I live most of my in the kill zone.  The Fermi 2 nuclear reactor site has an overfilled high-level radioactive waste storage building, five stories tall, that cannot be off-loaded because it was not built to its design specs — oops.  If this tower falls, the toll would be unfathomable.   There is no permanent solution to radioactive waste here or anywhere, which has been building up over 60 years of nuclear reactor operations in the United States.  Making matters worse, there is a proposed Fermi 3 plant, a $15 billion monstrosity as an answer to declining electricity usage in the region.  We need to end nuclear before nuclear ends us.

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