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A Facebook post by green candidate Yannick Jadot’s campaign team claims that the disaster in Japan in March 2011 claimed 19,000 lives, pointing to the ” potential mortal danger of nuclear power.
Did the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, cause the death of 19,000 people? This is what a Facebook post from the campaign team of green candidate Yannick Jadot suggests. Pointing to the “potential mortal danger” of nuclear power, the publication lists various accidents that have occurred in recent decades. And make the pro-nuclears jump.
It must be said that the human toll of the Fukushima disaster, which occurred on March 11, 2011, has long been the subject of divergent interpretations. However, we know today that it was natural disasters that caused the majority of the victims that day. In this case, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter scale, followed by a tsunami on the northeast coast of Japan. In total, there are more than 22,000 dead and missing, mainly victims of drowning.
The wall of water, which won the Fukushima power plant, is also the cause of three explosions, which injured sixteen people, as for the nuclear accident, classified level 7 – the maximum after Chernobyl – It caused massive evacuations, causing the death of 2,300 people. And cases of lung cancer recognized in at least six plant workers, one of whom died. A thyroid cancer screening campaign was conducted. But the Japanese authorities have never acknowledged any formal link with the nuclear accident.
Since then, the Facebook post has been modified and no longer mentions this report. Yannick Jadot’s team, contacted by Desintox, recognizes a ” error “.
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