izentrop wrote:Is it true that the Fukushima nuclear accident caused no deaths?
https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/201 ... rt_1720075 In summary for workers in the plant: one dead and five sick were associated with the radiation, 10 dead were not associated with the radiation and 16 were injured due to the explosions.
and none in the population.
Excuse me but it is (again) to show a sacred euphemism and even to be more precise: a shocking untruth if we stick to the elements of answer given by the article to its title!
Yes Fukushima has caused deaths in the population. We no longer speak here of deaths induced directly by radioactivity but of deaths due to evacuation, to the stress of rehousing, to the maintenance of certain categories of these populations in refugee situations because of the contamination of their place of life. origin for 7 years, and finally, lately, to the forced returns to these deserted areas of (for example) elderly people without resources, some of whom prefer to choose suicide rather than considering an atomically artificialized life because cut off from its cultural, natural environment and social!
And if we follow the scientific results of 3 different analyzes, including one from an official Japanese institution, mentioned in the Liberation article on this subject (are they "irrational", "ideological"?, Do they show a will to play with our childhood fears?)
the number of deaths in question would be 2211 or 2267 (according to studies) and therefore greater than those attributable specifically to the natural disaster (tsunami, earthquake) in the Fukushima sector (whose number is 1605)! Rationality, so much praised by some, forcing us here obviously to avoid comparing the sector of Fukushima (area of 40 km in diameter) with the region of Tōhoku affected by the tsunami (400 km of coastline and 18 dead for the record )!
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I also encourage you to read one of these analyzes in full. The observation is entirely in line with what I mentioned earlier on the incredible and impossible situation of atom refugees. Everyone knows a minimum about Japanese culture ... How can a Japanese native of this rural and wooded region choose for himself to come back, when he will not be able to pick wild mushrooms, which he will strongly hesitate to buy locally caught fish (if it is not prohibited for sale), when he will have no neighbor, while the maintenance of the rice fields has been abandoned for 7 years, that his house is perhaps to be devastated since time, that nature is strongly contaminated and that it regains on habitable areas?
And I could bet that we will review this kind of situation during (probable) future nuclear accidents, especially when we see the state of discourse and reflection on nuclear power, in France in particular, and on certain forums in particular.
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