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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by scottLobster on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:40PM (#35782640)
Are you trying to sound uninformed and unworthy of respect? Those 8 reactors were retrofitted to prevent another Chernobyl. Yes not at first due to the corrupt nature of the Soviet Union, but it did occur.

Also right now there is exactly 1 confirmed death from exposure to radiation from Fukushima, and a few dozen cases of cancer, radiation burns and injury. Pretty sure coal kills more directly and indirectly in any given month.

Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by natmaka on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:52PM (#35783167)
Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by Ekaros on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:06AM (#35784308)
And how many of those people would have been evacuated anyway for well the tsunami damage?
Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by natmaka on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:12AM (#35784350)
Please read the article and its sources: those deaths are attributed to the sole part of the evacuation related to the nuclear accident. The tsunami caused ~20000 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by ApolloFortyNine on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:01PM (#35793315)
>As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture.[21][19][22][23] This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami.[24] "Disaster-related deaths" are deaths attributed to disasters and are not caused by direct physical trauma, but does not distinguish between people displaced by the nuclear disaster compared to the earthquake / tsunami. As of year 2016, among those deaths, 1,368 have been listed as "related to the nuclear power plant" according to media analysis

Looks like that 2xxx number is disaster-related deaths? And the related to the nuclear power plant is 1368.

It is a bit confusing what that exactly entails. It seems to include people who committed suicide due to the evacuation, but surely their can't have been 1300 suicides. Is it people who are assumed to have died only because they weren't at home? How do you die due to an evacuation anyways?

None of this really seems explained, unless it really is 1300 suicides.

Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by natmaka on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:49PM (#35797699)
> the related to the nuclear power plant

"As of year 2016" (obsolete), and "according to media analysis" (vague source).

The official number of "Disaster-related deaths" is directly tied to a "disaster condolence fund system" (families have to apply). This is discussed in: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572...