U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage

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U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
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Truly. The evacuation order itself killed more people around Fukushima than radiation did.

I want to know more about this do you have an article you recommend?

Damn that's pretty sad

It is. And it’s maddening that people just say the word Fukushima as evidence against the viability of nuclear power. Radiation is such a boogeyman to people. Not well understood. And I don’t even think people know that there was a tsunami that killed 2000 people. 1 death from radiation - a plant worker.

Sure, let’s discard a high capacity, carbon-neutral, baseline-capable form of energy over this.

People don’t even know that smokestacks on coal fired power plants spew radiation into the atmosphere. The fact that nuclear deposits it in barrels is actually a plus.