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> Fukushima had four meltdowns with only a few casualties. The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.
by sampo 9y ago
> Fukushima had four meltdowns with only a few casualties.
The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person. The evacuation made necessary to avoid direct casualties from the nuclear incident killed 34.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoI wouldn't say they were direct. That number is based on a comparison with a 1916 tsunami and earthquake death toll, and with around one of those thirty-four being under sixty that seems hard to calculate exactly.
- stickfigure 9y agoAll of this needs to be put in the context of a natural disaster that killed >15,000 people and leveled hundreds of thousands of buildings. The power plant really shouldn't lead the story here.