Personally, I think this shows us how safe nuclear power can be. The plant was hit with an earthquake many orders of magnitude stronger than it was built to handle. Then it was hit with a tsunami. Then it melted down.
All that, and how many people are dead as a consequence of the meltdown? Zero.
Wikipedia says:
"Major news source reporting at least 2 TEPCO employees confirmed dead from "disaster conditions" following the earthquake.[368] "The two workers, aged 21 and 24, sustained multiple external injuries and were believed to have died from blood loss, TEPCO said. Their bodies were decontaminated as radiation has been spewing from the plant for three weeks."
45 patients were reported dead after the evacuation of a hospital in Futaba. Some of them "were suffering from dehydration because they had not eaten anything for three days"."
At the other plant where cold shutdowns were achieved, Dai-nii (nii is two, ichi is one), a crane operator was killed by the earthquake. The two at this plant were apparently killed by the tsunami a while later (there were working in a low level of a unit and apparently suffered at minimum fatal trauma).
All that, and how many people are dead as a consequence of the meltdown? Zero.
Wikipedia says:
"Major news source reporting at least 2 TEPCO employees confirmed dead from "disaster conditions" following the earthquake.[368] "The two workers, aged 21 and 24, sustained multiple external injuries and were believed to have died from blood loss, TEPCO said. Their bodies were decontaminated as radiation has been spewing from the plant for three weeks."
45 patients were reported dead after the evacuation of a hospital in Futaba. Some of them "were suffering from dehydration because they had not eaten anything for three days"."