It's hard to make a call about when to evacuate in the midst of an accident. I tend to think short-term evacuation in things like Fukushima makes lots of sense.

It's hard to make a call about when to evacuate in the midst of an accident. I tend to think short-term evacuation in things like Fukushima makes lots of sense. But then let people move back based on science of low-dose radiation. There's a lot of misinformation about radiation and public information. If you say something like: "The dose rate you will get if you stay is thought to take about 10 days off your life, vs. 4000 days if you drink too much booze" people may not evacuate as much. You could even say: "Fear of radiation is more dangerous than radiation itself" https://aeon.co/ideas/fear-of-radiation-is-more-dangerous-than-radiation-itself https://aeon.co/ideas/fear-of-radiation-is-more-dangerous-th...