Not the OP, but 15,000 people died because of the tsunami. No one died from the radiation release at Fukushima and:
"A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated."
Fukushima and Chernobyl are both classed as 7s, but the amount of radiation released at Fukushima was at least an order of magnitude less than Chernobyl, with 80% of that falling on the ocean.
Fukushima caused half as many people as Chernobyl to evacuate.
No one died as a direct result of Fukushima, as opposed to 2 immediate + 28 cleanup deaths from Chernobyl.
Fukushima definitely deserves to be taken seriously, and it belongs in the same class as Chernobyl, but at the other end of that class.
Thousands of families have forced out of their homes and displaced by a radiation-polluted landscape, which the conservative government is trying to pass off as safe so they can pull their disaster relief subsidies:
Nition|8 years ago
xrange|8 years ago
"A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated."
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_...
skookum|8 years ago
csours|8 years ago
Fukushima caused half as many people as Chernobyl to evacuate.
No one died as a direct result of Fukushima, as opposed to 2 immediate + 28 cleanup deaths from Chernobyl.
Fukushima definitely deserves to be taken seriously, and it belongs in the same class as Chernobyl, but at the other end of that class.
xrange|8 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
alphonsegaston|8 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/japan-fukushim...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/fukushima-nucl...
I pray that nothing similar happens to you or that you have to suffer the indignity of people glibly dismissing your misfortune.
xrange|8 years ago