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Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by shawabawa3 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:53AM (#18448966)
It's also important to note that literally one person has died as a direct result of the reactor failing in Fukoshima. Around 1600 died in the evacuation process, mainly elderly people.

The earthquake itself killed over 15000 people.

Imo it's a massively overblown disaster. Yes, it's bad, especially the environmental effects, but it's absolutely nothing compared to the earthquake and tsunami itself.

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Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by oldgradstudent on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:45PM (#18455398)
The distinction between direct and indirect deaths is completely irrelevant. The decision to evacuate will always be taken under conditions of uncertainty, when it is impossible to know the eventual scale of the disaster.

It is also irrelevant to compare the earthquake and tsunami to the nuclear disaster. Earthquake and tsunamis are unavoidable natural disasters, but the Fukushima Daichi disaster could have been easily avoided.

You're also ignoring the massive costs of the disaster and the monumental scale of the cleanup. The official costs put it at $188B and counting.

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