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I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break: > https://www.ozy.com/flashback/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-that-china-kept-secret-for-y

I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break: > https://www.ozy.com/flashback/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-that-china-kept-secret-for-years/91699/ https://www.ozy.com/flashback/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-... Fukushima is mostly restored already: > https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/national/evacuees-can-return-next-week-parts-okuma-host-fukushima-nuclear-plant-likely/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/national/evacue... > https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/beach-fukushima-prefecture-reopens-first-time-since-2011-disasters/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/beach-... > https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en02-01.html https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en02-01... You can even read current restaurant reviews on Google Maps very close to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. 96% of the compound of the NPP can be entered with simple dust masks and regular uniforms: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83bsgU0Ysw&feature=youtu.be&t=235 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C83bsgU0Ysw&feature=youtu.be... As for Chernobyl, in most cases the health effects of the incident are often grossly overestimated: > https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/ https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/

save_ferris 7y ago
> I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break You say that, but Fukushima didn't even come close to reaching it's catastrophic potential. Japan was facing the possibility of having to immediately evacuate 50 million people[0], or roughly 15% of the US population. An evacuation on that scale would almost certainly top any other emergency evacuation in human history. Japan got pretty lucky with the weather conditions during that episode, and if you flip that coin 9 more times, you'd find out pretty quick that they got pretty darn lucky the first time. 0: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/kan-cites-gods-help-in-containing-nuclear-crisis/#.UhvsbRbeZ8s https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/kan-ci...
- save_ferris 7y ago
  I got curious about the largest evacuations in history and a cursory google search says that the largest sea evacuation took place in NYC during 9/11, when 500,000 were ferried out of the city, beating Dunkirk in WWII (319k). So the prime minister of Japan was facing the possibility of an evacuation 100x this size. That is truly insane.

save_ferris 7y ago

> I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break You say that, but Fukushima didn't even come close to reaching it's catastrophic potential. Japan was facing the possibility of having to immediately evacuate 50 million people[0], or roughly 15% of the US population. An evacuation on that scale would almost certainly top any other emergency evacuation in human history. Japan got pretty lucky with the weather conditions during that episode, and if you flip that coin 9 more times, you'd find out pretty quick that they got pretty darn lucky the first time. 0: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/kan-cites-gods-help-in-containing-nuclear-crisis/#.UhvsbRbeZ8s https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/kan-ci...

save_ferris 7y ago
I got curious about the largest evacuations in history and a cursory google search says that the largest sea evacuation took place in NYC during 9/11, when 500,000 were ferried out of the city, beating Dunkirk in WWII (319k). So the prime minister of Japan was facing the possibility of an evacuation 100x this size. That is truly insane.