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Well, look at it this way: what happened at Fukushima was an ageing, poorly maintained reactor built on a fault line in the Pacific Ring of Fire got hit by a re
by tmtvl 2y ago
Well, look at it this way: what happened at Fukushima was an ageing, poorly maintained reactor built on a fault line in the Pacific Ring of Fire got hit by a record-setting earthquake AND a tsunami... and despite all of that the damage is not that massive. I mean, yes, the situation is a big mess and I wouldn't want to be in charge of handling the clean up and everything, but let's be fair: considering all of the circumstances it's impressive the damage wasn't way worse.
- mpweiher 2y ago"Relocation was unjustified for the 160,000 people relocated after Fukushima." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957582017300782 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095758201... So there were and will be no negative health effects from the radiation, whereas 100% of the deaths and other negative effects on people were due to Radiophobia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiophobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiophobia
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoTry to argue for no evacuation when the nuclear power plant is literally melting down and experiencing multiple large explosions. This feels like post-fact reasoning attempting to in a blasé paper over reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haUawwm7l4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haUawwm7l4k
- Moldoteck 2y agoone of their problems was they didn't know what rad levels are to decide how to perform evacuation, because most sensors were shut down bc of tsunami. They were acting blind with no data and were assuming the worst