This artwork illustrates radioactive rods immersed in water inside a nuclear reactor. The painting is part of my series relating to nuclear energy and especially to the alarming radioactive situation at the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear meltdowns in Japan.

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.

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.

The third painting in my art series about the dangers of nuclear energy took a direction of its own as the work developed. I started this canvas by creating an image of a plastic storage bag filled with radioactive waste from the Fukushima meltdown.

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.