Or look at Banqiao Dam. What you ask, you've never heard of it? That was a form of electricity production that catastrophically failed and killed an estimated 171,000 people.
Fukushima was a flea bite by comparison.
Fear of nuclear energy is irrational.
100% agree. Look at :
- asbestos
- car exhaust pollution
all of those are so silent, so invisible and kill or hurt so many more people.
I think you and many other posters or readers are missing the point of this photo editorial. This isn't the disaster olympics. There are people who still live here, and thousands of people who used to live here who were largely farmers and forced to find new homes.
The reason this will be discussed 10 years from now is because there will still be people actively affected 10 years from now. And probably just papers from Tohoku anyway.
And finally, the reason you don't hear issues from China being discussed all that often is because of their national policy and attitudes.
But fire and explosions we are much more familiar, even comfortable, with as causes of death and injury than creepy, invisible, insidious radiation.