Fukushima Mon Amour
Yossi Lemel
Offset, ca 2012
Tel Aviv, Israel
41108
Yossi Lemel
Offset, ca 2012
Tel Aviv, Israel
41108
This month marks the third anniversary of the earthquake and
tsunami that caused the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan.
The nuclear fallout from Fukushima is ongoing—in addition to
leaking radiation into the air, 1000s of tons of highly radioactive water continue
to leak into the ground and into the Pacific Ocean. The worst leak in the last 6 months took place just
last month, in February 2014, when about 100 tons of radioactive water leaked. This affects us all –the air we
breathe, the fish we eat, and things we don’t even consider. Just days ago, snow falling in
Missouri was found to contain double the normal radiation amount. The FDA stopped testing fish in the
Pacific Ocean for radiation not long after the disaster started, but
independent research is showing that every Bluefin tuna tested in the waters
off California has been contaminated with radiation that originated in
Fukushima. Scientists suspect that
all fish in the Pacific Ocean are affected.
Yossi Lemel’s poster connects the 2011 nuclear disaster with
the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. His title is from the 1959
French film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" which, among many other things, is
about war, memory, and forgetfulness.
We must not forget.
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