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What annoys me the most about Fukushima is that 19,747 people died in that event. Mostly by drowning. None in the nuclear accident. And yet that is what is rem
by BurningFrog 4y ago
What annoys me the most about Fukushima is that 19,747 people died in that event. Mostly by drowning. None in the nuclear accident.
And yet that is what is remembered as the big disaster that day.
- sofixa 4y agoAnd an oil tank fire caused by the same tsunami and earthquake killed more people than the nuclear incident and destroyed a whole city.
- wizofaus 4y agoYou also wonder if any sort of cost benefit analysis was done over decisions to mothball nuclear power plants after said event, compared, say, to restricting the building of houses in areas prone to tsunami damage (there's plenty of good reasons we need to stop living so close to shorelines yet it seems as popular as ever).
- pvaldes 4y agobecause the nuclear accident... is still a problem... more than a decade later... because... ... it was a nuclear accident While the other problem was closed ten years ago
- jdmg94 4y agoIn the US they still have people from Hurricane Katrina on FEMA trailers, natural disasters take a long time to recover from which is contrary to public perception that its solved cause its out of the news cycle