[HN Gopher] Ten Years of Fukushima Disinformation
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       Ten Years of Fukushima Disinformation
        
       Author : ericdanielski
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-09-16 19:40 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (skepticalinquirer.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (skepticalinquirer.org)
        
       | avastmick wrote:
       | This is an excellent resource that consolidates data that is
       | largely scattered.
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       | I wonder the motivation for those who are so anti-nuclear that
       | they would distort the data or even lie in many cases.
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       | Surely, the fourth largest earthquake, plus a huge tsunami
       | leaving so many dead, yet causing so little provable danger from
       | the nuclear facility would, in most other domains, be generally
       | seen as a resounding endorsement of its safety.
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       | Nuclear is like terrorism in that the fear and reality of effect
       | are so far apart. In both cases it's far more dangerous to ride
       | in a car.
        
         | redis_mlc wrote:
         | > This is an excellent resource
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         | No, it's trying to minimize the costs - it's a coverup.
         | 
         | - the cleanup cost will be around $1 trillion and require
         | significant army and political involvement for decades. These
         | are costs borne by the taxpayer. (The Japanese PM actually
         | coordinated the response directly after the plant operators
         | started to abandon the site in the middle of the crisis!)
         | 
         | - 250,000 area residents were evacuated to school gyms, etc.
         | and many will die there
         | 
         | - the US govt. intervened to analyze the true risks with a
         | drone, and notified the Japanese that if the cooling ponds
         | evaporate, there will be a fire and airborne release. So that
         | was another emergency that had to be remedied.
         | 
         | - the operator was notified of the risks of flooding years
         | beforehand. To save money, they defied the recommendations.
         | 
         | Stop being a nuclear apologist when you're incapable of
         | understanding the most basic issues at hand. Merkel, who I
         | don't respect, is right in this case that if it can happen in
         | Japan, then it can happen in Germany.
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         | > In both cases it's far more dangerous to ride in a car.
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         | Until you get a bill for $1 trillion. Can they send it to you?
        
       | cratermoon wrote:
       | I like how the article goes on for many paragraphs at the start
       | about the consequences, and then somehow flips immediately to
       | saying, essentially, "nothing to see here".
        
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