[sampo]

> Fukushima had four meltdowns with only a few casualties.

The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.

[dragonwriter]

> The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.

The evacuation made necessary to avoid direct casualties from the nuclear incident killed 34.

[boomboomsubban]

I wouldn't say they were direct. That number is based on a comparison with a 1916 tsunami and earthquake death toll, and with around one of those thirty-four being under sixty that seems hard to calculate exactly.

[stickfigure]

All of this needs to be put in the context of a natural disaster that killed >15,000 people and leveled hundreds of thousands of buildings. The power plant really shouldn't lead the story here.