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There's no actual reason why Fukushima should have been evacuated (beyond flooding, electricity loss, etc. caused by the tsunami, of course). The natural backgr
by Vecr 4y ago
There's no actual reason why Fukushima should have been evacuated (beyond flooding, electricity loss, etc. caused by the tsunami, of course). The natural background radiation of the area is low, so outside the bounds of the plant the radiation is and always was fine, knowing that the radiation would go down over time.
- nl 4y ago> There's no actual reason why Fukushima should have been evacuated This is completely untrue. Even outside the exclusion areas there are signs of the damage the disaster has caused. The Japanese government has raised the acceptable radiation limit for people living in the area from 1 to 20 milliSieverts per year. No-where else is this amount considered acceptable. Even with this increase it's still dramatically below the measured amounts, which is up to 0.04 microSieverts per hour. > doctors have left the area because the government refuses to reimburse them when they list radiation sickness as the cause for nose bleeds, spontaneous abortions, and other ailments resulting from ionizing radiation. (The only acceptable diagnoses are so-called “radiophobia,” nervousness, and stress.) The spike in thyroid cancer among children in Fukushima is dismissed as a survey error, produced by examining too many children. https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/fukushima-today-im-glad-that-i-realized-my-mistake-before-i-died/ https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/fukushima-today-im-glad-that...