Media slant on Nuclear power ...
A year ago an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.
In September Japan's National Police Agency gave the number of confirmed deaths caused by the earthquake and tsunami as 15,850 with a further 3,287 people missing.
How many confirmed deaths resulted from radiation leakage or the other nuclear related accidents which the earthquake caused at the Fukushima Nuclear plant?
Zero.
92.5% of the fatalities confirmed by April as a result of the earthquake and Tsunami died by drowning, including both the people who died at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Media coverage in the UK of the anniversary of the disaster centred entirely on the Fukushima plant, which might have been a legitimate story placed in context, but it seems bizarre that the way Japan is recovering from the rest of the disaster, or what the cost was in lives and money, was completely ignored.
When there is a natural cataclysm which kills well over fifteen thousand people, and the press coverage is disproportionately concentrated on one particular side-effect of that disaster which hasn't caused any confirmed deaths at all, you have to ask yourselves whether this reporting reflects at least an unconscious bias.
As a clear example of anti-nuclear bias, at one point on today's news the reporter said that people were worried about the effect a second earthquake or tsunami might have on Fukushima.
Really, talk about tunnel vision!
If there were another seismic event remotely like the 2011 quake and tsunami, the evidence of last year shows clearly that the damage and loss of life from the event itself would be vastly worse than the effects of damage to nuclear plants.
In September Japan's National Police Agency gave the number of confirmed deaths caused by the earthquake and tsunami as 15,850 with a further 3,287 people missing.
How many confirmed deaths resulted from radiation leakage or the other nuclear related accidents which the earthquake caused at the Fukushima Nuclear plant?
Zero.
92.5% of the fatalities confirmed by April as a result of the earthquake and Tsunami died by drowning, including both the people who died at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Media coverage in the UK of the anniversary of the disaster centred entirely on the Fukushima plant, which might have been a legitimate story placed in context, but it seems bizarre that the way Japan is recovering from the rest of the disaster, or what the cost was in lives and money, was completely ignored.
When there is a natural cataclysm which kills well over fifteen thousand people, and the press coverage is disproportionately concentrated on one particular side-effect of that disaster which hasn't caused any confirmed deaths at all, you have to ask yourselves whether this reporting reflects at least an unconscious bias.
As a clear example of anti-nuclear bias, at one point on today's news the reporter said that people were worried about the effect a second earthquake or tsunami might have on Fukushima.
Really, talk about tunnel vision!
If there were another seismic event remotely like the 2011 quake and tsunami, the evidence of last year shows clearly that the damage and loss of life from the event itself would be vastly worse than the effects of damage to nuclear plants.
Comments
Zero."
What's your source of information ? How do you know it's true ? As the ancient Greek said - the truth is to be found at the bottom of the well.
However, if you look on the internet for sites listing causes of death from the earthquake and tsunami you won't find any instances of clearly identified and confirmed deaths from radiation. Those sites which give an estimate for deaths from radiation say zero. If there had been any confirmed radiation deaths I'm sure we'd never have heard the end of it.
The people who died at the plant itself - whose number can be counted on the fingers of one hand - died by drowning or as a result of a crane failure rather than because of radiation.