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> And it's important to remember that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused one confirmed death so far. I wish nuclear apologists with an agenda would stop
by redis_mlc 7y ago
> And it's important to remember that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused one confirmed death so far.
I wish nuclear apologists with an agenda would stop repeating this.
250,000 residents were displaced, many spending their final days in gyms and other camps as rufugees in their own country.
An entire army will spend decades and likely trillions of dollars trying to do something with the shattered remains of the Fukushima complex.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> 250,000 residents were displaced, many spending their final days in gyms and other camps as rufugees in their own country. For which overreaction to the powerplant failure is partially to blame.
- sjwright 7y agoCalling people who disagree with you "apologists with an agenda" isn't really within the spirit of Hacker News, nor is it conducive to healthy discussion. The disaster that hit Fukushima was a tsunami. Only a very small section of the prefecture is still affected by the fallout and most of that area is for an abundance of caution. Most of the leaked radioactive material went in the best possible place for it—dispersed into ocean water. Ocean water already contains naturally occurring radioactive material, in quantities many orders of magnitude greater than humans could ever hope to disperse "by accident". Meanwhile, the disaster being faced now could have been similar or ever massively worse if the tsunami had hit and damaged chemical storage plants instead.