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Question: your second quote says: > residents who evacuated were exposed to so little radiation It does not say anything about residents who did not evacuate.
by willj 9y ago
Question: your second quote says:
> residents who evacuated were exposed to so little radiation
It does not say anything about residents who did not evacuate. How can we know how many cancer deaths would have happened if nobody had evacuated, and whether that would be less than the amount that died due to poor evacuation procedures?
- yongjik 9y agoGiven the difference of ~130 vs ~1600 in actual deaths, I'm naively assuming that staying at home would not have increased radiation exposure tenfold. (There are ways to limit radiation exposure even if you're in the middle of a lightly contaminated region. I think delivering clean food would have been easier than trying to accommodate 300k additional refugees after tsunami.)