I love solar, but this article is misleading. It says ~2000 people died as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. While technically true, only 1 person has died from radiation related to the event. The other deaths were as people were evacuating the exclusion zone (eg. Old people who couldn’t get medical treatment during the evacuation).
The article is correct. You are misinterpreting the writer: “…forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. More than 2,000 die in the process.” An event (Nuclear plant disaster) forced evacuation of people. That evacuation (from the area due to the nuclear plant disaster) resulted in 2000 deaths.
There were over 2000 deaths directly related to the evacuation order. No known deaths from radiation related events. Here are some links and quotes from a few places to show consensus on this.
“Official figures show that there have been 2313 disaster-related deaths among evacuees from Fukushima prefecture. Disaster-related deaths are in addition to the about 19,500 that were killed by the earthquake or tsunami.” - World Nuclear Association, a think tank and pro nuclear policy group.
No deaths nor discernible increase in cancer rates - UNSCEAR Report, 2013, a UN agency
I love solar, but this article is misleading. It says ~2000 people died as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. While technically true, only 1 person has died from radiation related to the event. The other deaths were as people were evacuating the exclusion zone (eg. Old people who couldn’t get medical treatment during the evacuation).
…forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. More than 2,000 die in the process.it looks precise to me
The article is correct. You are misinterpreting the writer: “…forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. More than 2,000 die in the process.” An event (Nuclear plant disaster) forced evacuation of people. That evacuation (from the area due to the nuclear plant disaster) resulted in 2000 deaths.
There were over 2000 deaths directly related to the evacuation order. No known deaths from radiation related events. Here are some links and quotes from a few places to show consensus on this.
“Official figures show that there have been 2313 disaster-related deaths among evacuees from Fukushima prefecture. Disaster-related deaths are in addition to the about 19,500 that were killed by the earthquake or tsunami.” - World Nuclear Association, a think tank and pro nuclear policy group.
No deaths nor discernible increase in cancer rates - UNSCEAR Report, 2013, a UN agency
And if you want to deep dive:
https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en-1-2-1.html
https://fukushima.jaea.go.jp/en/report/database/
I mean… that still makes the disaster responsible for their deaths