The news just keeps coming in and it's looking, as some have predicted, grimmer and grimmer.

Now we have this haunting image of a huge steel derelict pumped full of radioactive waste water set loose to roam the seven seas like some modern day "Flying Dutchman":

"A massive hollow floating platform is being transported to Fukushima to hold radioactive water from a troubled nuclear power plant. The steel platform is 136 meters long and 46 meters wide and can store up to 10,000 tons of water.

It was provided to Tokyo Electric Power Company from Shizuoka city, where it was used as a fishing park. It was made water-tight and rust-resistant during one month of refitting at a Yokohama shipyard. A large crane was mounted and pipes attached.

After final inspection at a nearby port, the platform is scheduled to arrive off the coast at Fukushima Daiichi power plant in one to two weeks."

I'm reminded of a song titled "Limbo Ships" which was put together some years ago when a ship full of toxic waste was circling the globe looking for a harbor to dump its load:

By Jim Hunter and Tom Bryan, © 1992
From Temple Records - A 25 Year Legacy, © 2007.

Limbo Ships

Black ship out on a dark sea silent
As death on the old whale road;
Liberian freighter with no port of call
And a cargo no boat should hold.

Chorus:

Limbo ships out on the water
Round and round trying to lose their load;
Limbo ships out on the ocean
Going four corners all around the globe.

Charley Noble