Lady Murasaki wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:Trapper John wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:
I had school girls from Fuckushima stay with us last year and they implied the evacuation was more stressful and caused more harm than anything. Surely the effects of the radiation will be noticed more in the next 20 or so years.
Yes that's what I understand and what I said in a post to Jack, earlier in the thread:The worst effect by far from Fukushima was the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami and the lasting effects on the residents pysche's as they struggle to cope with personal loss and displacement from their homes and places they grew up in.
As far as long lasting effects go, who can say? what we do know about Chernobyl which was obviously a lot longer ago is as in the words of the UN's on going reports (the latest being 2015) on Chernobyl:To date, there has been no persuasive evidence of any other health effect in the general population that can be attributed to radiation exposure.
Of course the big question there is the words 'To date' and I accept that.
Diagnosis for thyroid cancer amongst children in Fuckushima rocketed after the disaster.
And it's getting worse and will keep getting worse as the place continues to spew out massive amounts of radiation.
Life in the ocean is being fried.
The radiation fallout from Fuckushima was lower than Chenobyl. It affected the forestry in and around Chenobyl more. Officially no one died from radiation fallout in Fuckushima but hundreds died from the evacuation, mostly the elderly and infirm. The effects on the ecosystem are hopefully being monitored, as TJ said, mankind is selfish , we need to plan for the future. Looking after the environment is looking after the future.
Like they wouldn't have needed evacuation in the aftermath of houses falling about around their ears and several trillions of gallons of Pacific ocean ending up in their front rooms? that was the main reason for the displacement, the fact there was nothing left to stay for.
I'd like to see evidence too of 'thyroid cancers rocketing' that appears to be a sensationalist claim by anti nuclear activists and doesn't appear in any official reports from respected sources. Chenobyl was worse and 15 people, mostly children died from thyroid cancer attributed to the accident, that was more than 30 years ago and the figure hasn't changed.
The flora and fauna in and around the Chenobyl area and beyond showed little or no effect apart from parts affected in the intitial deluge at the beginning. It recovered well and to all intents and purposes is no different to what it was before. People still live very close to the plant and even go fishing in the lakes close by which supplied the cooling for the reactors.
It isn't widely reported either that the other reactors on the same site were manned and continued to work normally, producing electricity right up to the year 2000 when the plant finally closed completely. Doesn't sound much like the keep out, deadly radiation zone we were told it was/is.