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Your post makes it sound like Fukushima failed in a catastrophically unsafe manner. I think it’s important to be explicit about the casualties that resulted fro
by abtinf 8y ago
Your post makes it sound like Fukushima failed in a catastrophically unsafe manner. I think it’s important to be explicit about the casualties that resulted from the disaster. The death toll currently stands at... maybe 1. A plant worker died of lung cancer in September 2018–over 7 years after the incident—and the government thinks it might have been caused by the plant.
- rorykoehler 8y ago200k people were displaced
- abtinf 8y agoAnd over a thousand people died due to the evacuation. Every one of those deaths is the moral fault of generations of anti-nuclear fear mongers who created the atmosphere of paranoia.
- i_am_proteus 8y agoAt the time, the media was conflating deaths from the earthquake (there were around 15,000) and "deaths from the reactor accident."
- BurningFrog 8y agoThat's the most distasteful thing of all for me. 15,896 people died that day, and no one (outside Japan) gives a shit because there was some radiation leakage and property damage.