• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Truly. The evacuation order itself killed more people around Fukushima than radiation did.

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            1 year ago

            It is. And it’s maddening that people just say the word Fukushima as evidence against the viability of nuclear power. Radiation is such a boogeyman to people. Not well understood. And I don’t even think people know that there was a tsunami that killed 2000 people. 1 death from radiation - a plant worker.

            Sure, let’s discard a high capacity, carbon-neutral, baseline-capable form of energy over this.

            People don’t even know that smokestacks on coal fired power plants spew radiation into the atmosphere. The fact that nuclear deposits it in barrels is actually a plus.