• Sonnenblume@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    The 2202 deaths claim is from this article.

    If you don’t trust that news site, directly in the article to the left of the info box:

    As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 “disaster-related deaths” in the prefecture.

    That claim is supported by one government report, two scientific papers and one news site.

    • jdr@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      And then you have to see what a “disaster-related death” is.

      Certainly you didn’t have thousands of people dying at the site, which is what someone might understand if they had taken your numbers at face value.