nuclear-news

Despite all this, the level of denial about the situation remains simply staggering. Some smarmy jerk on the Asian Correspondent website named Gavin Atkins confidently informs us that only five people were killed in the Fukushima disatser—one trapped in crane console during the quake, two swept away by the tsunami, a clean-up worker who suffered a heart-attack, and another whose cause of death has not been determined. TEPCO won’t reveal this information, while assuring us it wasn’t radiation. “Only” two workers were hospitalized due to radiation exposure—after their clothes were soaked while standing in radiocative water. Apparently, they weren’t even wearing rubber boots, but Atkins is reassured that they were released from the hospital within four days. He adds: “[T]he good news is that there are still precisely zero deaths attributable to the release of radiation at the plant, and on the basis of doses received, zero are expected…. No effects on health or significant contamination cases have been identified among the general public evacuated from the area.”…. http://www.ww4report.com/node/11855