[alphonsegaston]

No one dying quite glibly ignores the economic and social consequences of displacing somewhere in the neighborhoods of 120,000 people.

That aside, are we to believe that no one's medical conditions were made more severe by the stress and displacement caused by this disaster? And no one died as a result? Something of the scale of Fukushima can't be so easily dismissed by this kind of cursory analysis of radiation related health risks.

[stouset]

As yongjik commented elsewhere, an order of magnitude more people died as a result of the evacuation than the WHO predicts would die of additional cancer deaths. And that's assuming a linear no-threshold model of radiation exposure, when current thinking is that a threshold-based model is more accurate.

As s/he summarizes, more people died as a result of running away from the disaster than would have died if they'd stayed put.