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Comment by pjc50

4 hours ago

Fukushima wasn't mishandled quite so badly, didn't kill significant numbers of rescue workers, didn't require emergency containment, and didn't contaminate half of Western Europe (most of it ended up in the Pacific).

However it was still enough to make Germany shut down its working reactors.

How many rescue workers did it kill?

  • I had to go and look it up: none. There is a lot of discourse about the number of people killed directly or indirectly during or after the evacuation, however ..

    • Some people definitely died in the evacuation due to the tsunami. Were any additional evacuated due to the nuclear implication?