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A comment on Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown. Parent comment

Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by jessriedel on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:32AM (#7373074)
> Fukushima ...(correct me if I'm wrong), is a lost city that won't be possible to inhabit for thousands of years.

Please edit your comment. You're completely wrong, and it's unsubstantiated speculation like this that drapes everything in FUD. People are already returning to the immediate vicinity of the power plant, having only been excluded this long because of ludicrously conservative recommendations.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1065957...

(The actual city of Fukushima and the rest of the Fukushima prefecture have been safe, even according to the highly conservative recommendations, for a long time now. I'm not sure they were ever even evactuated. As teraflop notes, the above article refers to the small town of Ōkuma in which the reactor was located.)

As expected, the actual harm caused by the meltdown is essentially undetectable above background levels, and is trivial compared to the tsunami disaster that precipitated it. Most of the harm done comes from fear mongering when no actual risk exists.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/us-japan-fukushima...

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by pyre on Monday March 10, 2014 @02:13PM (#7374650)
> when no actual risk exists

Now who's over-stating their case? 0% risk?

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by chc on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:20PM (#7375761)
Please don't stoop to this level of discourse. If there are two possible readings of a comment, one reasonable and one unreasonable, it's best to choose the reasonable one.
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