I'm not disagreeing, just pointing out that when the grandparent post says "emotional reactions to a single event", they are talking (correctly or not) about th

I'm not disagreeing, just pointing out that when the grandparent post says "emotional reactions to a single event", they are talking (correctly or not) about the Fukushima event, not Chernobyl. A response that "Chernobyl wasn't on the other side of the world" is either misunderstanding which event entirely, or skipping a whole lot of necessary preamble about it not being a "single event" at Fukushima.