Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by abtinf on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:17PM (#19594145)

Your post makes it sound like Fukushima failed in a catastrophically unsafe manner. I think it’s important to be explicit about the casualties that resulted from the disaster. The death toll currently stands at... maybe 1. A plant worker died of lung cancer in September 2018–over 7 years after the incident—and the government thinks it might have been caused by the plant.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by i_am_proteus on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:39PM (#19594231)

At the time, the media was conflating deaths from the earthquake (there were around 15,000) and "deaths from the reactor accident."

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by BurningFrog on Saturday April 06, 2019 @10:18PM (#19594387)

That's the most distasteful thing of all for me.

15,896 people died that day, and no one (outside Japan) gives a shit because there was some radiation leakage and property damage.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by rorykoehler on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:39PM (#19594229)

200k people were displaced

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by abtinf on Saturday April 06, 2019 @10:04PM (#19594322)

And over a thousand people died due to the evacuation. Every one of those deaths is the moral fault of generations of anti-nuclear fear mongers who created the atmosphere of paranoia.

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