Japan has spent rougly $88 billion, possibly rising to $200 billion to mitigate the harms of the Fukushima disaster. We can’t know how many people would have been killed or sickened if the area was not evacuated and decontaminated. But we know about 150,000 were displaced, and about 30,000 people remain displaced. There are still no-go zones to the tune of billions of dollars.
There are extremely valid points in this thread around the urgent need for nuclear power, and the relative risk compared to other green sources of energy. But “Fukushima was not a nuclear disaster” is not an objective statement of fact, it is an obtuse word game that irresponsibly undermines the other very strong points made in this thread.