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Radiation Alert
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Radiation Alert

Ever since the March 11, 2011 triple meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants in Japan — arguably the worst nuclear disaster on planet earth — my art has focused on various aspects of nuclear energy. Worries about nuclear radiation effects haunt me. As a result I have been creating artworks exploring the complicated results of radiation due to the meltdowns.

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Nuclear Power
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Nuclear Power

For many years I have been making art reflecting my concern about man-made climate and land destruction. In the past I painted a series about the Iraq war; the melting of ice; and the dire plastic pollution saturation. Then one day, seemingly out of the blue, I had the clear inspiration to confront my worries about nuclear radioactivity… something I knew very little about.

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NUCLEAR BULLS EYE
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NUCLEAR BULLS EYE

The artwork “Nuclear Bulls Eye” pictures a target but is in reality a nuclear reactor with some radioactive rods in the center. The otherworldly glow that I attempted to replicate with acrylic paint has a name: Cerenkov Radiation!

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A CRY FOR FUKUSHIMA
Art, Nuclear Mary Lou Dauray Art, Nuclear Mary Lou Dauray

A CRY FOR FUKUSHIMA

I have asked myself what can I do, as an artist, about the worst industrial calamity in human history – the triple meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. I am overwhelmed by the unprecedented scope of this disaster.

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FUKUSHIMA:  30 MILLION RADIOACTIVE STORAGE BAGS
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FUKUSHIMA: 30 MILLION RADIOACTIVE STORAGE BAGS

This is the fourth in my series of artwork about nuclear energy. My painting depicts only one of 30 million plastic storage bags stuffed with radioactive waste in the Fukushima area in Japan. These bags are part of a seemingly futile effort to clean up contaminated soil in the area.

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NINE MILLION PLASTIC BAGS AND COUNTING  #2
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NINE MILLION PLASTIC BAGS AND COUNTING #2

This picture, “Nine Million Bags and Counting #2,” is my second in a series about nuclear energy. I am deeply concerned about the dangers posed by past, current and future nuclear power development and the dilemma posed by nuclear waste disposal.

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NINE MILLION BAGS AND COUNTING!
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NINE MILLION BAGS AND COUNTING!

In the Japanese Fukushima Prefecture you cannot help but glance around and see at least 54,000 very organized stacks holding more than 9 million neatly packed plastic storage bags. These enormous black sealed bags are filled with radioactive soil and all kinds of sizzling waste…

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