fukushima

It feels like the article is implicitly blaming the Fukushima meltdown for the tsunami somehow.

Listen to her talk about the children of Fukushima and other places where people have been subjected to radiation.

Wildfires in the exclusion zones of Chernobyl or Fukushima are bound to release radioactive clouds over neighbouring regions and countries.

During the Fukushima meltdown, radiation levels of 3–170 μSv/h (= 17 mrem/hour) were measured within 30 km of the reactor[2].

So how can you escape from a 10-meter tsunami, like the 11-meter Tohoku tsunami that wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi, assuming you have years to prepare?

Your implication is that Fukushima was so safe that it took the simultaneous occurrence two statistically unlikely events to cause it to fail catastrophically i.e.

Global warming will cause far worse problems than Fukushima did.

WHO estimates the increased cancer risk of people living inside the Fukushima Prefecture as being up to 70% higher (thyroid cancer for girls exposed as infants)[1].

So lay off a couple of CT scans and visits to Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima and you'd be beneath the limit clearly linked to cancer.

On the other hand, the meltdown at Fukushima contaminated the entire area with Cs-137, most of which is in the soil, sediment, and sand.

The whole green area of the chart (75 mSv) plus taking a dose at the northwest edge of the Fukushima exclusion zone puts you 19 mSv over the limit.

I've run into the Fukushima thing myself.

Chernobyl, Fukushima and many other "smaller" accidents happened.

The main problem with Fukushima probably is that everybody in charge where high on flippant pro-nuclear happy movies, and their emergency plan was "none, this will never happen ha-haa".

"only fatal reactor accident in US history" claim, apart from the other deaths within the USA, the recent (and still ongoing) Fukushima accident used a General Electric design from the USA.

The article indicates that Fukushima was the "world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986" but let's not beat around the bush, by now many of us have come to the conclusion that this is the worst nuclear disaster ever as the distrubing ecosystem collapse [1] currently underway in the Pacific Ocean would seem to confirm.

Fukushima was a systemic and human disaster, but the reactor type is an old model.

As far as I'm concerned Merkel was right to adjust Germany's energy policy to favor renewables after Fukushima.

Total extra radiation ( over a lifetime ) for people around Fukushima: 10mSv.