No Nukes Jingles from IPSEC

And for music lovers and Christmas carolers, reprinted below is the IPSEC Holiday Songbook, a sonorous seasonal expression of our overflowing joy about having the Indian Point nuclear plant in our very own backyard.

Michel

Michel Lee, Esq.
Steering Committee
Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition


The Indian Point Holiday Songbook





(Tune: “Jingle Bell Rock”)


Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear Waste


Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear waste
It blows in the air
It blows in your face
Tritiated water
Makes a great baste

It’s just nuclear
It’s just nuclear
It’s just nuclear waste

What a bright dump
It’s the right dump
For the bank of the Hudson River
An alpha particle
Is the right particle
To ingest in your liver

Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear waste
Put it in casks
There’s no other place
The spent fuel pools
Have run out of space

For the nuclear
All the nuclear
For the nuclear waste





Plutonium the Red-Nosed Reindeer (First version)

You know Uranium and Strontium
And Barium and Cesium
Krypton and Xenon
And Cobalt and Tritium
But do you recall
The most deadly radionuclide of them all?

Plutonium Two Three Eight
Has a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You’d be fatally exposed

All the gamma ra-ays
Used to laugh at P u and say
We can penetrate concrete
You can’t even get through hay

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Half-a-million years from today
Plutonium will shout out with glee
I’m still toxic! Look at me!

Tho it’s hard to be-lieve
The following fact is true:
If Ancient Roman had a nuclear plant
Its Plutonium could still kill you.




(Tune: “Have a Holly Jolly K-I Pill”)

Have a Holly Jolly K-I Pill

Have a holly jolly K-I pill
At the ready throughout the year

I don’t know
If Indian Point will blow
But it’s better to have K-I near

Have a holly jolly K-I pill
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And give K-I to all you meet

Oh ho radiation could blow
With poisons you cannot see
But you can protect your thyroid at least
With this simple remedy

Have a holly jolly K-I pill
And in case you didn’t hear
Change your family’s supply
Of this iodide
Every 5 year





(Tune: “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” )

Entergy Must Shut This Plant Down


You better rethink
You better recant
You better shut down this nuclear plant
Shut down Indian Point, right now

You better get off
The nuclear course
And switch to a safer energy source
Shut down Indian Point, right now

You can’t evacuate us
If the plant melts down
Or save us from the poison rain
Of fallout all around

You better think hard
Consider your lives
Your parents and kids and husbands and wives
Shut down Indian Point, right now

You better come out
You better not hide
You better come hear the citizen’s cry

Shut Indian Point
Shut Indian Point
Shut down Indian Point, right now




(Tune: “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree”)

Rocking Around the Reactor Core

Rocking around the reactor core
At the Indian Point power plant
Nuke waste lovers just adore
The nuclear power plant

Rocking around the reactor core
At the Indian Point power plant
Nuke waste lovers just adore
The nuclear power plant

A new nuke dump is being built
To hold the overflow
The spent fuel pool is so tightly packed
The water is aglow

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
The NRC saying
Just keep a praying
For 20 more year

Rocking around the reactor core
Have a radioactive day
Everyone fleeing hysterically
When the core starts to melt away!




(Also sung to “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” - avoid singing the two songs consecutively)


On the Banks of the Hudson River

On the banks of the Hudson River
Radioactive waste descends
Throughout the Hudson Valley
Shut it down and it will end

Every day of its operation
Indian Point makes toxic streams
Don’t let the Nuke Commission
Threaten all our future dreams

The region’s first responders say
The escape plan isn’t right
Evacuation’s impossible
Especially at night

We hate Entergy’s pollution
We don’t want to live in fear
We know there’s no solution
For about a million years

Out of love of living
And all humanity
We can’t allow this nuke plant
Doom us to its legacy




(Tune: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”)

Protect Us From This Evil Waste

Protect us from this evil waste
It’s time to show you care
Act now before a meltdown brings
Disaster and despair
And mortgages - if we live - to pay
Would leave our wallets bare

That’s no tiding of comfort or joy
Comfort or joy
That’s no tiding of comfort or joy

Protect us from this undue threat
Just look and you will find
Your Homeowners excludes nuclear
Events of any kind
You’ll be left destitute
But Entergy doesn’t mind

That’s no tiding of comfort or joy
Comfort or joy
That’s no tiding of comfort or joy

Protect us from this evil waste
Just look and you will find
That toxic waste from fission is
An awful thing to mind
It poisons our environment
For such a long, long time

That’s no tiding of comfort or joy
Comfort or joy
That’s no tiding of comfort or joy





(Tune: "Let it Snow" )

Let it Glow

The evacuation plan is frightful
But the profits are so delightful
And since we have no place to go
Let us glow let us glow let us glow!

When the sirens don’t work we worry
But there’s really no need to hurry
Since we have no place to go
Let us glow let us glow let us glow!

When it’s finally sealed up tight
Our homes will still be warm
And we’ll peacefully sleep at night
Like the people who shut Shoreham

Though the plants are old and dying
The operator is not good-byeing
Entergy just loves the dough
Let us glow let us glow let us glow!


(Tune: “Christmastime is Coming Again”)

Indian Point is Leaking Again

You wanna sleep nice
You wanna dream sweet
But the Geiger counter is going beep beep
Indian Point is leaking again

Sirens are failing
Repeated tests
Some of them malfunctioned
Because of birds nests
Indian Point is leaking again

Tritium’s in the water
The Hudson’s beginning to glow
Cesium isn’t where it oughta be
And Strontium’s mixed in the snow

It’s dripping from pools
Coming thru cracks
Heading to the river
For your coffee and snacks

Indian Point is leaking again



(Tune: Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel)

Nuke Waste, Nuke Waste, Nuke Waste

Oh nuke waste, nuke waste, nuke waste
I made it out of uranium
And when it comes out of the reactor
It’ll last for many a millennium

Oh nuke waste, nuke waste, nuke waste
I made it out of uranium
And when it comes out of the reactor
It’ll last for many a millennium

We have a little nuke plant
We wish would go away
But they don't want to close it
They think it still can pay

Close it close it close it
Please make it go away
Close it close it close it
So we can dance and play





(Tune: “Winter WonderlandJ T)
This one was written especially for NRC officials to sing

An NRC Fantasy Land

Spent fuel pools, are a leaking
Warning sirens, ain’t a sounding
But we’re strolling along
Whistling a song
Living in NRC fantasy land

Gone away - real oversight
Here to stay - a nuclear fright
And we’re strolling along
Whistling a song
Living in NRC fantasy land

You say terrorism is something to consider
In a post 9/11 world
We say IP makes Entergy richer
With profits so big shareholders twirl

Backup generators, are a failing
Sump pumps, are a ailing
Fireproofing material
That’s quite ethereal
Who cares? We live in fantasy land!

Security guards asleep on duty
Well, that’s A-OK
We don’t really give a hootie
Since no terrorists attacked that day

Indian Point, is a aging
Nuclear fire, could be a raging
But we don’t care
We don’t live near there
We’re living in NRC fantasy land

Living in NRC fantasy land
Living in NRC fantasy land



(Tune: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas)

We Wish You Would Shut the Nuke Plant

We wish you would shut the nuke plant
We wish you would shut the nuke plant
We wish you would shut the nuke plant
For a Happy New Year

Petitions we bring
To you NRC
We wish you would shut the nuke plant
For a Happy New Year

We want some solar power
We want geothermal systems
We’d love to see some windmills
Please bring them all here!

Clean energy we'd bring
To you and your kin
Clean energy for Christmas
And every future year

We want leaders who will get some
We want leaders who will get some
We want leaders who will get some
Clean energy here!




(Tune: “The 12 Days of Christmas”)

The 12 Days of Nukemess

On the first day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
A mountain of nuclear waste

On the second day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the third day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the fourth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the fifth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the sixth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Sirens not a working
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the seventh day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a working
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the eighth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Pumps a clogging
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a sounding
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the ninth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Generators failing
Pumps a clogging
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a sounding
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the tenth day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me:
Guards found a sleeping
Generators failing
Pumps a clogging
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a sounding
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the eleventh day of Nukemess
Entergy sent to me
A coolant pump shutting
Guards found a sleeping
Generators failing
Pumps a clogging
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a sounding
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste

On the twelfth day of Nukemess
Entergy gave to me:
An accident waiting to happen
A coolant pump shutting
Guards found a sleeping
Generators failing
Pumps a clogging
Radiation leaking
Sirens not a sounding
Many whistleblowers
Bad fireproofing
No escape plan
Two old reactors
And a mountain of nuclear waste



(Tune: “Auld Lang Syne”)

Naught on Line

Should Indian Point be shut at last
And no more brought on line

At least we’d halt creation now
Of waste that outlasts time

We’d end the hazard of the dome
No threat inside there’d be

And we could then light our home
With clean safe energy