"Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One."
Especially compared to the 19.700 deaths the tsunami took all in all.
But it is still not so simple. There are long term effects of radiation, many people likely will get cancer sooner and the whole mess is still not cleaned up.
And here where I live in germany, it is still advised against regulary eating mushrooms from the wood, because of one incident that took place 36 years ago.
But yes, the coal plants around here contributed worse, so I also believe it is wiser to not replace fission with coal.
In the same report compiled by a WHO body, it is also said that there is no statistical evidence in the increase of cancers in the area. This is science and statistics, everything else is speculation based on nothing, fantasy stories.
I am an Italian living in Germany. The German approach to nuclear power is totally propagandistic and anti-scientific, a very un-German approach to the subject.
One of the nice things about nuclear is that you can literally Google radiation maps from various time period, plug that in to demographic maps and plug those numbers into the radiation->excess death models.
Turns out, lightning is something you should be worrying about more than living 10 miles from Fukishima.
Not from deep research, but just from the known fact, that radiation increases cancer risk and that at Fukoshima was lots of radiation released.
"One of the nice things about nuclear is that you can literally Google radiation maps from various time period"
And there are different types of radiation. Some not so bad as background, or standing next to it, but very dangerous when eaten. I do not know when going in the forest and I do not want to walk around with a geiger counter. They still do not disclose how much wild boar meat has to be thrown away regulary in germany because of chernobyl.
And if the data in Japan does not show an increase, well then it is either all good (because most was washed into the sea) - or maybe not correct data. I don't know about the japanese government, but here in the east block after chernobyl, there was never a official problem in the first place. And the japanese government hopefully is better than the stalinists were, but bending the truth to save face, is a known motive there as well.
And the thing is, like I said, I am not anti nuclear. But solar panels and wind turbines simply do not have this problem ever.
I mean, there might be effect, but do you have a quantification of these. Like maybe you get 0.1% more likely to catch cancer if you eat these mushroom, but when you compare that to the 300% more likely if you smoke then I think you're safe.
Why do we allow smoking but are scared of low dose radiations?
Especially compared to the 19.700 deaths the tsunami took all in all.
But it is still not so simple. There are long term effects of radiation, many people likely will get cancer sooner and the whole mess is still not cleaned up.
And here where I live in germany, it is still advised against regulary eating mushrooms from the wood, because of one incident that took place 36 years ago.
But yes, the coal plants around here contributed worse, so I also believe it is wiser to not replace fission with coal.