Sky-High Radiation Found in Fukushima Fish

[PamW]

19. Continuing the math....

As above, the Fukushima plants save 700 additional cancer case each year; over a 40 year life.

That means that the Fukushima plants have already saved 28,000 cancers in comparison with coal plants.

Now WHO estimates the accident may be responsible for up to 130 cancers.

So even with the accident; the Japanese have 27,870 few cancers because of Fukushima.

It could have been the total 28,000; if only they hadn't done some really stupid things like not burying the fuel tanks for the backup diesels, and putting the backup diesels themselves in a non-watertight basement; so that a tsunami could take out both the diesels and their fuel tanks.

In the USA, the NRC mandates that the fuel tanks be buried, the diesels have to be in water-tight vaults, or high up in a building; and the reactor operator has to have more diesels and fuel offsite ready to be flown in and connected, and they have to drill on this. TEPCO attempted to get some offsite backup diesels to the plant; but they weren't ready and they didn't practice. The diesels they flew in had incompatible connectors. Had they practiced, they would have found that out on the first practice run.

TEPCO is / was a POOR reactor owner / operator. It doesn't have to be like that.

PamW