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Re:Fukushima disaster: Robot finds possible melted nuclear fuel by new299 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @10:09AM (#14832322)
From wikipedia:

"but 34 people died as a result of the evacuation" [1].

I'm not sure I can agree that Fukushima isn't an internationally noteworthy incident. It's even one that really requires long term monitoring of radiation levels (locally only of course).

Many mistakes were made in the handling of the Fukushima reactor and accident. Radiation accidents have the potential of be massive disasters. It's important to learn from Fukushima, and not just treat it as an "acceptable cost".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

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Re:Fukushima disaster: Robot finds possible melted nuclear fuel by tptacek on Sunday July 23, 2017 @10:48AM (#14832492)
I don't think they said it wasn't noteworthy.
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Re:Fukushima disaster: Robot finds possible melted nuclear fuel by acjohnson55 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:39AM (#14832737)
Didn't they thought?

I'm trying to communicate that I don't think that Fukushima was a disaster that warranted international coverage - the weather was.

I guess you could draw a distinction between the terminology each post used, but it reads the same to me.

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