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Do you take issue with this sentence? "...the reality is that five years later, radiobiological consequences of Fukushima are practically negligible - no one h
by wrsh07 11y ago
Do you take issue with this sentence?
"...the reality is that five years later, radiobiological consequences of Fukushima are practically negligible - no one has died from the event, and is it extraordinarily unlikely that anyone will do so in future."
Because if not, it doesn't seem like Fukushima is really a disaster you can point to and say, "This is why nuclear is bad."
- emodendroket 11y agoIt's rendered a rather wide section of Japan a ghost town and I'm not really convinced it is so "extraordinarily unlikely" or that the numbers aren't being fudged considering the scandals about lead in geiger meters of cleanup workers and so on.
- wrsh07 11y agoYour point would have been better made with a link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160310-fukushima-anniversary-photos/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160310-fukushima-... I'd love to have numbers, like is it 100km^2? I looked but couldn't find any sources backing up your claim about geiger counter scandals, so my only advice is to be skeptical of things you read on both sides. Of course it's dumb to ignore warnings that nuclear power plants can cause massive amounts of damage, but there are also over 400 active nuclear reactors.
- emodendroket 11y agoAmong other accusations: " The workers’ dosimeter badges, meanwhile, used to measure an individual’s exposure to radiation, could be easily manipulated to give false readings. According to Suzuki, tricks like pinning a badge on backwards, or putting it in your sock, were commonplace. Regular workers were given dosimeters which would sound an alarm when radiation exceeded safe levels, but it made such a racket that, says Suzuki, “people just turned them off or over and kept working.”" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-e...