Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

Comments #9590508:


Lucky Accident 5 2, 2:50am

@txag70
Lies and statistics.
From that Fukushima WHO report:
[ None of the seven reported deaths among workers is attributable
to radiation exposure1.]
[1. The causes of these deaths have been reported as disaster-related (two cases), heart attack (three cases), sepsis (one case) and leukaemia (one case for which the time of the onset was shorter than the minimum latency period for radiation-induced leukaemia).]

You can't easily rule off the possibility of Fukushima impact on any one individual.
Such death cases would have to arise above the noise level of regional death statistics.

As to Chernobyl,
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/14/geography-in-the-news-chernobyls-legacy/