I was like 200-300mi/km from that thing when that happened. That morning the plant was nice sky blue, on evening it was like archival photos of Dresden bombing, that weekend many of news shows were explaining how concrete walls worked as blowoff panel using mock-ups and what could be going on up there in Unit 4’s spent fuel pool, and by the end of that decade the Japanese society as a whole showed deterioration by equivalent of that amount on a national scale.

I’m still pro-nuke though! In fact the whole situation made me so. Before I was naively thinking we better seek alternate fuels.