“This is a typical example of how the truth has been changed into a different story.
Misinformation and sensationalism exploded in the media which, too often, won't let scientific facts get in the way of a good environmental-risk story. Mistrust in nuclear energy, which had eased in the decades following the incident at Chernobyl in 1986, spiked and nuclear skeptics scrambled to demonize the technology once again. It was the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, sharing that plant’s Level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale, prompted the evacuation of over 160,000 people from the region and fears that dangerous radiation levels would contaminate parts of the Pacific rim.
March 11 marked 10-years since an earthquake and subsequent tsunami sent 15-metre ocean waves barreling over the seawall of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sited on the Japanese Pacific coast, flooding the lower parts of its four reactors, and prompting three nuclear meltdowns which released radioactive contaminants into the environment.
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