This article illustrates the safety paradox encountered by officials when deciding to evacuate citizens (or not). Radioactive contamination poses a cancer risk (typically decades in the future), whereas evacuating people involves a more immediate risk of death.
Fukushima was particularly perplexing because it was a nuclear disaster which followed the earthquake/tsunami disaster and its attendant chaos.
I won't engage in armchair quarterbacking, that's too easy. But there's certainly room for improvement.
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