'radiation did not damage health of local people' is interesting language here. "As of the end of December 2015, 51 people were diagnosed with malignant or sus

'radiation did not damage health of local people' is interesting language here. "As of the end of December 2015, 51 people were diagnosed with malignant or suspected malignant thyroid cancer in the second examina-tion conducted by Fukushima Prefecture.... As of the end of June 2015, 113 people were diagnosed with malignant or suspected malignant thyroid cancer. Of these, 99 people underwent surgery.... the Fukushima Prefectural Citizens Health Survey Committee has not recognized these thyroid cancer cases as the result of the Fukushima accident; the Committee’s reasoning is... that some of the subjects may have been over-diagnosed."[0] [0] Katsuta T. (2019).'The Reality after Fukushima in Japan - Actual Damage to Local People'. https://web.archive.org/web/20200326151713/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-658-25987-7_16.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20200326151713/https://link.spri... Some of the subjects may have been over-diagnosed. Should medicine not err on the side of caution? Given the results near Chernobyl? At any rate, there were certainly deaths as a result of the plant's failure. About 2000 people died as a consequence of disaster-related evacuation measures. Whether the radiation was directly responsible or not, the damage to the plant and very real dangers of potential exposure undeniably led to those deaths. Is the UN saying that evacuating tens of thousands was an over-reaction? Was the extreme threat posed by the highly unstable condition of Unit 4 "over-diagnosed" by most western experts? The ongoing spin on this topic is disgusting. March of FUD.