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> Fukushima like event What was the impact of the nuclear reactor there?

• tuukkah 6y ago
  "154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_di...
  • ryanlol 6y ago
    Most studies seem to suggest that the evacuation ended up being much worse than doing nothing at all, no? For example: > “With hindsight, we can say the evacuation was a mistake,” says Philip Thomas, a professor of risk management at the University of Bristol and leader of a recent research project on nuclear accidents. “We would have recommended that nobody be evacuated.” https://www.ft.com/content/000f864e-22ba-11e8-add1-0e8958b189ea https://www.ft.com/content/000f864e-22ba-11e8-add1-0e8958b18...