The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered.
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
Image of Steve Herman on front of a large wrecked truck with jumbled trash on the truck bed.
FILE - VOA's Steve Herman was among the first Western reporters on the scene immediately following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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@newsguyusa "The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died." Why are you uttering such misleading sentences?
Indeed. One person died from Fukushima. Four persons died from the dam that burst. The rest died from "other things" (evacuations etc).
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@newsguyusa not a good take, sir. Your implication that many died due to the nuclear plant being hit is misleading at best (1 person died years later due to radiation poisoning). Yes, many people died due to other circumstances, and that matters. But it’s the job both now and then of people like yourself to clarify the narrative about what caused what.
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@pluralistic You wouldn't forward antivaccine narratives. Look this one up and you'll see why this is the same. Be responsible about what you post.
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
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so apparently there was ONLY the nuclear disaster, and NO TSUNAMI to these people.
At least 18,000 drowned.
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@newsguyusa
so apparently there was ONLY the nuclear disaster, and NO TSUNAMI to these people.
At least 18,000 drowned.
Interesting.@newsguyusa
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@newsguyusa @pluralistic the first sentence of this post is too close to fake news. 23k people didn't died from "Fukushima disaster", but from the tsunami.
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Indeed. One person died from Fukushima. Four persons died from the dam that burst. The rest died from "other things" (evacuations etc).
@troed @David @newsguyusa
I am curious about the single (*singular*) person who might have died as a direct consequence of the nuclear plant meltdown. I shall have to look that up. The remaining deaths (*tens of thousands*) in the region that I know about are no mystery. -
@troed @David @newsguyusa
I am curious about the single (*singular*) person who might have died as a direct consequence of the nuclear plant meltdown. I shall have to look that up. The remaining deaths (*tens of thousands*) in the region that I know about are no mystery.Ah ok.
"One worker at the power plant died 4 years later of lung cancer, having been exposed to 74 mSv since the accident. However Geraldine Thomas claimed "there is a vanishingly small chance that this man’s lung cancer was as a result of the radiation he was exposed to".
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@newsguyusa Are you even Steve Herman?
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
They want more nukes? NO NUKES, is my response.
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
Correcting:
The [2011 earthquake and tsunami], in which 23,000 people died, was one of the [...] events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which [also] destroyed a nuclear power plant. [(]Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.[)](Edited to add "and tsunami")
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@newsguyusa I was living in Tokyo at the time of the Great Quake and Fukushima meltdowns. It was a peak dangerous situation. It took me a decade afterwards to learn how to avoid being triggered.
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Indeed. One person died from Fukushima. Four persons died from the dam that burst. The rest died from "other things" (evacuations etc).
@troed @newsguyusa @David Deaths directly attributed to Fukushima were underreported because Tepco hired shady companies to recruit workers for the initial work. The workers were homeless people who wouldn’t be missed. We’re not even talking about cancer yet , or the thousands of abortions (not exactly deaths, but you know).
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Ah ok.
"One worker at the power plant died 4 years later of lung cancer, having been exposed to 74 mSv since the accident. However Geraldine Thomas claimed "there is a vanishingly small chance that this man’s lung cancer was as a result of the radiation he was exposed to".
@troed @newsguyusa @David @jerrej Misinformation.
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@troed @newsguyusa @David @jerrej Misinformation.
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@troed @newsguyusa @David Deaths directly attributed to Fukushima were underreported because Tepco hired shady companies to recruit workers for the initial work. The workers were homeless people who wouldn’t be missed. We’re not even talking about cancer yet , or the thousands of abortions (not exactly deaths, but you know).
... and only you know the real numbers?
Gut feelings aren't facts. Feel free to source your claims with reputable sources.
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@troed @newsguyusa @David @jerrej Misinformation.
@meltedcheese @troed @newsguyusa @David
Could you please form a coherent sentence?
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
@newsguyusa Did you, or do you know of other press, follow up on the US Navy folks that were irradiated from this?
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The Fukushima disaster, in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
Politely, alarmist bullshit.
23,000 people died in the great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami. The reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant *were a sideshow* which didn't directly kill anyone at the time: if the operators hadn't put the diesel fuel for the backup generators somewhere stupid, or had built the sea wall just one metre higher, the meltdowns wouldn't have happened. (The reactors survived the quake intact, the meltdown happened when the coolant pumps stopped.)
