There are thousands of people dead from fallen building bridges and drowned.
Probably tens of thousands injured from falling debris.
Possibly hundred of thousands homeless.
Billions of dollars lost in properties.
People accept all those acute deaths, injuries and losses as part of a devastating natural disaster.
Yet, let a few rads of radiation escape from a nuclear plant - something that at worse may cause a few people to receive an exposure similar to what you get flying cross country or living in a high elevation town like Denver, and the panic level shoots to the moon.
At worse this can be like three-mile-island, where nobody died or was injured (except when tripping as they were running away in the media generated panic!)
Compared to the other devastation, having some reactor fuel melt and a bit of radiation released is a picnic in the park.
I wish the media wouldn’t contribute to the hysteria by exaggerating the comparatively small danger. This is not Chernobyl! (Not that the damage and lives lost from that compares to the losses from this Tsunami).
Totally agree, we are being held hostage by scifihorror and media hyped dangers
You do realize there is a state of emergency for 5 Nuclear reactors....and it’s ain’t goin so well,with not even one, so far, right?
And if you read what was said, it’s an EXTERNAL leak, not the internal one...
We are talking global nuclear fallout...because not even one of em is under control..
But of course they don’t want to panic the WORLD’S populations...
Yah, from the vids I’ve watched with cars and buildings being washed away I don’t see how there aren’t tens of thousands gone from the effects. I don’t know, I’m not equipped to calculate that stuff, but they’ll never find a lot of the victims.
I have not been able to wrap my head around this and I bet I don’t get much sleep tonight. This is bad.
I could not get personal over Haiti or New Zealand or Thailand, I got no skin in that game. This hits home for me. I have Japanese people in my life and they are hurting over this. Sucks. Me? Hell, I can go ride my bike tomorrow and enjoy life, but it hits home over here in Garland. We are carrying the weight of what has happened because the blood of those killed and lost flows in the veins of my loved ones.
Sheesh, them Japanese are used to quakes, but this was the Big One.
“Compared to the other devastation, having some reactor fuel melt and a bit of radiation released is a picnic in the park.
I wish the media wouldn’t contribute to the hysteria by exaggerating the comparatively small danger. This is not Chernobyl! (Not that the damage and lives lost from that compares to the losses from this Tsunami).”
No kidding. I can’t believe how many posters here can’t keep things in perspective, Chernobyl didn’t get hit with a 9.x earthquake plus a tsunami, yet puked out more radiation than all western nuclear powerplants combined. I’ll bet anyone here these Japanese plants won’t change that fact. That reality shows the stark difference in design and operation between western and Russian nuclear power plants.