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by bluedanieru 5020 days ago
Just to be clear, the handling of the Fukushima incident has been an absolute shit-show. The handling of the earthquake and the tsunami, in a broader sense, has been excellent.
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Which didn't prevent the other power plants in Japan from killing more people than the nuclear disaster will kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYT6BjfBro (1m15s in)

(death toll from that fire, explosions around it and people locking themselves in their homes, then getting enveloped by the smoke, was over 200. It was not the only oil disaster during the earthquake)