Most likely it will go away after the experiment yields the likely results (ie that itâ(TM)s easier to just bring snacks with you than summon a robot)
Ad well, the life expectancy of the robot is nil. Between drunk kids having fun and nerds using the robots as parts sources - this isn't going to end well.
The poor robots - kidnapped and forced to fight like gladiators in duels to the death.
As for "what matters" that would be subjective and every person would give a different account.
Exactly. There are some folk in here that seem to think this is supposed to be programming and not much else. Others have a different idea of what is allowable, and what sends their Blood pressure skyrocketing.
As for me, I have varied interests, and an American being arrested on spying charges is pretty interesting.
What I find weird is that so many of our smart Slashdot Brethren haven't figured out that if they aren't interested in a story, that they can just move on to something that suits their sensibility better.
Now consider that a lot of people are not paying on a yearly basis, and suddenly the games are taking up a significant mount of usertime. I update Diablo three maybe every other year, and my son has gotten into emulating old school games on a RPi3, essentially paying 30 dollars for a world of games.
And this brings up the fact that you don't have to have the Whizbang Platinum 10 million console to have good gameplay. There are more non-pay options than pay options.
The proponents need to own the sins of the industry. Otherwise they'll just be cranks, squealing how everyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid. When in fact, as Shakespeare said it so well - "a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more - it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Ok, so every other way we make power needs to do the same. Hydro is responsible for every broken dam in history. Coal for all the black lung. Oil for all the wars in the Middle East. Wind for everyone who has fallen off of a windmill. Solar for everyone who fell off a roof and broken their necks while installing panels. Every source of power kills people sometimes. We can even chart the deaths per kilowatt and guess what? Nuclear still has the least. Your goal of 0 deaths is naive at best.
Wait....what? Where on earth did you ever pull that out of anything I wrote? Any industrial process is going to have death now and then. U have those charts bro? Even just fixating on deaths is only telling a small part of the picture.
But enough of the silly stats. Flying the space shuttle might have remarkably different safety stories depending on total miles travelled and deaths per launch.
Nuclear accidents have this problem of messing up the locality, and cleanup costs that end up with simply abandoning the locale where the accident happens. Ignoring those costs and bragging about how few people were provably directly killed by radiation is deflection.
At worst you are a shill of the natural gas industry.
I like NatGas. It's a fine transition energy source until the clean methods are mature. Shill? Not likely.
Either way the cost of not building nuclear plants isn't 0.
Are you certain you are replying to me? I simply don't get where you get the idea I am arguing for 0 deaths. Industrial processes always entail some risks. Accidents happen.
My objection to Nuc energy at present is based on the fact that when something goes wrong, it makes a hellava big mess. That truth, along with the hubris of some of the pro-nuc brethren, the cost only viewpoint of their financiers, and the schedule pressure placed by administrators simply invites letting that jinn out of it's containment structure and making it's mess.
Its in the millions of deaths and despite this fact you get obsessed with a single death of someone who worked in a badly run plant for 38 years.
Again, not my argument. And you went No True Scotsman there. Of course, when a disaster occurs, we look into it and find out just why it happened. But to use those findings as vindication of nuc plant safety requires the NTS defense. If one plant is badly run in a country like Japan, It is not a bad guess that the other plants might be deficient in some manner.
Utilizing nuclear power is not like other industrial processes. A remarkable amount of energy is contained in a small place. Like all energy, it wants to be out of it's containment. It is possible to contain it. But humans are motivated by what motivates them, and we have seen the biggest factor in nuclear accidents is human error or criminality.
Own your own sins Pollyanna.
At least have the decency to argue against points I make, not make shit up so you can pretend I said it. Peace out
Biometrics is turning into the ligne Maginot of the IT world, a fixed defense that someone, somewhere will always find a way around.
Since this "exploit" requires the bad actor somehow getting photographs of the person's palm, some nice lightweight cotton gloves defeats the hack.
I wonder how any people walk around with their palms exposed anyhow?
If Biometrics are the only thing giving access to whatever is classified - well, that's just stupid. Even my phone requires me to input a PIN every so often in order to use the fingerprint reader. And if someone actually went to the trouble of raising my prints they better pick the right one or after three tries they better know my PIN. There are ten choices you know.
One of the things that struck me in the BBC story about her was a woman careers advisor trying to put her off but being completely accepted by her male peers in her scientific role.
That's exactly how it happens. I wrote above how the female scientists and engineers took shit from the staff ladies.
My wife always had trouble with the females who worked for her. Jealousy, backstabbing, rumor mills. The men who worked for her loved her.
Is it that they don't want to go into the fields, or society tells them they shouldn't go into that field.
Back in college we had a small number of Women Computer Science Students. And they mentioned that their other women peers would actually put them down for choosing such a major.
They were just as good as any of the other students, but the biggest problem is society told them what they should be doing.
Also as of note, I work with a lot of older Computer Scientists, many of them over the age 55 seem to a larger percentage of woman. As computer science use to be considered Womans work back a few generations ago.
Of course a woman can be as good as any other student in CompSci. But you did hit the exact problem. The man holding women down is a female.
The biggest resistance to women working in STEM comes from other women. The women scientists and engineers I worked with would confirm this. They took crap from the women in what were considered "proper" careers. The divide between the Staff Assistants and the professional women was huge. I always felt badly for the ladies affected by this.
The actual Fukushima death toll is still zero, no matter how much you hate capitalism.
You seem to be out of the loop regarding something we call: news.
You and I both know that he's going to come up with some wild thing like "Well - people who were hiding in caves at the time - not one of them was even affected, much less killed!"
Also bizzare how some pro nucs have taken to claiming that having evidence based concerns are somehow anti-capitalist. Especially with extensive Guvmint subsidies and the Price Anderson act just to allow them to exist, Nuc plants are the very embodiment of socialism.
The number is either 0 or 1 depending on who you believe. While tragic, its not the huge numbers that many predicted.
For the level of proof I accept, I have no idea how the numbers were obtained. Were any deaths related to radiation or were they just part of the mechanics of the unfolding events?
And proving beyond doubt that any death is the result of exposure to radiation is difficult other than obvious massive exposure at the time of the accident. The kind that leads to near instant pathology.
But is nuclear power generation going to take strategy from the tobacco industry? Quibble over deaths provable beyond doubt while ignoring the obvious other effects - especially since many effects take years to manifest.
And those other effects - economic disruption, areas sealed off from productive and profitible use in maintaining an economy, and the Public relations disaster, amplified by people who act as if nothing happened and that anyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid, is only deniable by a level of denial that ranks up with young earth creationists.
Nuclear denialism as it were. Instead of claiming that there is no problem and that the other side is retarded, nuc proponents should be the angriest mofos about this textbook case of how not to build and operate a nuclear power plant.
There is too much energy confined in a small place - and that jinn want's out of it's bottle - to try to operate in such a fashion.
The proponents need to own the sins of the industry. Otherwise they'll just be cranks, squealing how everyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid. When in fact, as Shakespeare said it so well - "a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more - it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
I'm not sure TMI should even be counted. It was scary, but in the end it didn't kill anyone or even release significant radiation. For that matter much of the panic was a result of the unfortunate timing with the release of "The China Syndrome" and the media being anxious to connect the two.
Cannot argue with that. TMI isn't in the same league.
I don't support coal in the least. It is filthy, hazardous to health, and it's mining effects are ruinous. The sooner we leave it in the ground, the better.
Maybe humans are not sufficiently careful to have nuclear facilities. Errors in thinking often occur.
The problem is, coal has been killing millions of people a year by spewing out radiation and other pollution. And yet human psychology says it's better to kill millions intentionally with coal rather than risk killing thousands by accident with nuclear. Accidents scare us more because we assign fault to them, perhaps. We can accept any number of routine matter-of-course cost-of-doing-business deaths, but we cannot abide a single dramatic accidental death.
Can you give me the citations showing that millions of people have been killed by coal?
I don't think the seawalls were the ultimate problem.
I think the ultimate problem was the siting of the backup generators. Had they been positioned higher, and continued to operate, the meltdown would have been avoided. They actually put some of the backup generators in a basement. This was an issue that was known about well before the disaster.
Yes - the overtopping of the sea walls allowed salt water to ingress to the emergency generators. But the walls were overtopped by 14 meter waves. The seawalls were 10 meters in height. The big problem was that the area was historically known for bigger waves.
To make matters weirder, the site was originally on a 35 meter bluff, but they scalped 25 meters off it so they could rest the reactor on bedrock.
The generator placement was definitely bad, but if they had not scalped the mountain, and raised the seawall to a height that was able to withstand tsunami that was simply going to occur, the precipitating problem of soaking the generators wouldn't have happened.
There was no deadline issue involved in moving the generators to a safer location.
Perhaps it's time to stop blaming the disaster on technical issues and blame greed instead. That's why it is right that some people should go to jail.
I don't disagree. The pity is that the people who originated the terribly bad decisions in the first place are probably dead now. That doesn't absolve the following people's liability, so punish away.
Are you seriously that stupid or are you trolling for the anti-Nike side? Itâ(TM)s fucking incredible the level of reality and logic disconnect in your statement.
You still illustrate exactly why people think that nuc people ar as trustable as Jerry Sandusky around ten year old boys. Allow me to explain.
You (apparently) and many of the pro nuc crowd meet every criticism be calling the person who has the nerve to question any aspect as stupid, detached form reality, and illogical. When in fact, I am not anti-nuc. I consider you the enemy from within. The pro nuc person who systematically destroys the credibility by acting like a smug asshole.
When in fact, all you offer for disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima is bullshit like "It won't happen again, New reactors are perfectly safe" or "Not one single person was killed.
And then they get to see what happened at those sites. It's like looking at the reactors in Fukushima exploding aznd you seem to think that people are wanting to get that at home."
And all you offer in return is derision and calling them stupid. When in fact you are indeed seeing a weird sort of stupidity that masquerades as smug superiority - It is your reflection in the mirror. You harm what you profess to support. Nuc Energy has a terrible P.R. Problem, and you only make it worse.
Come back and discuss when you aren't a weak troll, because you are helping make those who you consider the enemy's case.
It is coming back again. Look at Microsoft who we LOVE to bash. Office 2016 reintroduced a radical concept of colors. Office 2019 has 2007 style icons again here
Cool! Good to see that the flat ugly tile is going to the hell it deserves. Those new icons are completely acceptable.
Yeah, why try to harden or put in safeguards at any facility, because fuck it, it's an act of god. The executives didn't directly kill anyone, it was the flying debris and deadly chemical cloud, and a warning was in fact issued.
The actual Fukushima death toll is still zero, no matter how much you hate capitalism.
You seem to be out of the loop regarding something we call: news.
You and I both know that he's going to come up with some wild thing like "Well - people who were hiding in caves at the time - not one of them was even affected, much less killed!"
Also bizzare how some pro nucs have taken to claiming that having evidence based concerns are somehow anti-capitalist. Especially with extensive Guvmint subsidies and the Price Anderson act just to allow them to exist, Nuc plants are the very embodiment of socialism.
According to the WHO and Japanese gouvernment, the direct death toll of the Fukushima disaster was: Zero.
https://ourworldindata.org/wha...
The indirect results from radiation related issues and evacuation stress was not zero, but I find it hard to argue that the executives are directly responsible for the deaths of so many people. The tsunami itself caused tremendous devastation and evacuation was a given, with or without the nuclear plant there.
Don't even wonder why the general citizenry doesn't trust the pro-nuc clan. You are the personification of why.
Do a little research as to exactly why there was no other outcome but catastrophic failure for the Fukushima site.
All human decisions that from a safety, standpoint are inexplicable outside of straightforward explanation that there was corruption involved.
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Most likely it will go away after the experiment yields the likely results (ie that itâ(TM)s easier to just bring snacks with you than summon a robot)
Ad well, the life expectancy of the robot is nil. Between drunk kids having fun and nerds using the robots as parts sources - this isn't going to end well.
The poor robots - kidnapped and forced to fight like gladiators in duels to the death.
A fairly high percentage of /. posters appear to be on the autism/aspergers spectrum
It may be impossible for them NOT to be pedantic
I think you might have a point there.
As for "what matters" that would be subjective and every person would give a different account.
Exactly. There are some folk in here that seem to think this is supposed to be programming and not much else. Others have a different idea of what is allowable, and what sends their Blood pressure skyrocketing.
As for me, I have varied interests, and an American being arrested on spying charges is pretty interesting.
What I find weird is that so many of our smart Slashdot Brethren haven't figured out that if they aren't interested in a story, that they can just move on to something that suits their sensibility better.
* Video Games - $23 billion
So video games beat out the big screen and music in the US. I believe this has been the case for at least a few years.
https://www.selectusa.gov/medi...
Now consider that a lot of people are not paying on a yearly basis, and suddenly the games are taking up a significant mount of usertime. I update Diablo three maybe every other year, and my son has gotten into emulating old school games on a RPi3, essentially paying 30 dollars for a world of games.
And this brings up the fact that you don't have to have the Whizbang Platinum 10 million console to have good gameplay. There are more non-pay options than pay options.
Sam - The Story of a Broken Toucan.
Bollywood is making their own version, as they believe toucan play that game.
The proponents need to own the sins of the industry. Otherwise they'll just be cranks, squealing how everyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid. When in fact, as Shakespeare said it so well - "a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more - it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Ok, so every other way we make power needs to do the same. Hydro is responsible for every broken dam in history. Coal for all the black lung. Oil for all the wars in the Middle East. Wind for everyone who has fallen off of a windmill. Solar for everyone who fell off a roof and broken their necks while installing panels. Every source of power kills people sometimes. We can even chart the deaths per kilowatt and guess what? Nuclear still has the least. Your goal of 0 deaths is naive at best.
Wait....what? Where on earth did you ever pull that out of anything I wrote? Any industrial process is going to have death now and then. U have those charts bro? Even just fixating on deaths is only telling a small part of the picture.
But enough of the silly stats. Flying the space shuttle might have remarkably different safety stories depending on total miles travelled and deaths per launch.
Nuclear accidents have this problem of messing up the locality, and cleanup costs that end up with simply abandoning the locale where the accident happens. Ignoring those costs and bragging about how few people were provably directly killed by radiation is deflection.
At worst you are a shill of the natural gas industry.
I like NatGas. It's a fine transition energy source until the clean methods are mature. Shill? Not likely.
Either way the cost of not building nuclear plants isn't 0.
Are you certain you are replying to me? I simply don't get where you get the idea I am arguing for 0 deaths. Industrial processes always entail some risks. Accidents happen.
My objection to Nuc energy at present is based on the fact that when something goes wrong, it makes a hellava big mess. That truth, along with the hubris of some of the pro-nuc brethren, the cost only viewpoint of their financiers, and the schedule pressure placed by administrators simply invites letting that jinn out of it's containment structure and making it's mess.
Its in the millions of deaths and despite this fact you get obsessed with a single death of someone who worked in a badly run plant for 38 years.
Again, not my argument. And you went No True Scotsman there. Of course, when a disaster occurs, we look into it and find out just why it happened. But to use those findings as vindication of nuc plant safety requires the NTS defense. If one plant is badly run in a country like Japan, It is not a bad guess that the other plants might be deficient in some manner.
Utilizing nuclear power is not like other industrial processes. A remarkable amount of energy is contained in a small place. Like all energy, it wants to be out of it's containment. It is possible to contain it. But humans are motivated by what motivates them, and we have seen the biggest factor in nuclear accidents is human error or criminality.
Own your own sins Pollyanna.
At least have the decency to argue against points I make, not make shit up so you can pretend I said it. Peace out
Biometrics is turning into the ligne Maginot of the IT world, a fixed defense that someone, somewhere will always find a way around.
Since this "exploit" requires the bad actor somehow getting photographs of the person's palm, some nice lightweight cotton gloves defeats the hack.
I wonder how any people walk around with their palms exposed anyhow?
If Biometrics are the only thing giving access to whatever is classified - well, that's just stupid. Even my phone requires me to input a PIN every so often in order to use the fingerprint reader. And if someone actually went to the trouble of raising my prints they better pick the right one or after three tries they better know my PIN. There are ten choices you know.
There can't be that many Nancy Graces around, why does the Angel of Death keep taking the wrong one?
Mods - do your thing, and I do mean +5
One of the things that struck me in the BBC story about her was a woman careers advisor trying to put her off but being completely accepted by her male peers in her scientific role.
That's exactly how it happens. I wrote above how the female scientists and engineers took shit from the staff ladies.
My wife always had trouble with the females who worked for her. Jealousy, backstabbing, rumor mills. The men who worked for her loved her.
I believe the term used is "Crab Potting"
Is it that they don't want to go into the fields, or society tells them they shouldn't go into that field.
Back in college we had a small number of Women Computer Science Students. And they mentioned that their other women peers would actually put them down for choosing such a major.
They were just as good as any of the other students, but the biggest problem is society told them what they should be doing.
Also as of note, I work with a lot of older Computer Scientists, many of them over the age 55 seem to a larger percentage of woman. As computer science use to be considered Womans work back a few generations ago.
Of course a woman can be as good as any other student in CompSci. But you did hit the exact problem. The man holding women down is a female.
The biggest resistance to women working in STEM comes from other women. The women scientists and engineers I worked with would confirm this. They took crap from the women in what were considered "proper" careers. The divide between the Staff Assistants and the professional women was huge. I always felt badly for the ladies affected by this.
I don't know man, have you seen the movie "Life"?
Those Hollyweird kooks - making a movie about breakfast cereal.
It would have been better if they made "Captain Crunch, the Early Years".
The actual Fukushima death toll is still zero, no matter how much you hate capitalism.
You seem to be out of the loop regarding something we call: news.
You and I both know that he's going to come up with some wild thing like "Well - people who were hiding in caves at the time - not one of them was even affected, much less killed!"
Also bizzare how some pro nucs have taken to claiming that having evidence based concerns are somehow anti-capitalist. Especially with extensive Guvmint subsidies and the Price Anderson act just to allow them to exist, Nuc plants are the very embodiment of socialism.
The number is either 0 or 1 depending on who you believe. While tragic, its not the huge numbers that many predicted.
For the level of proof I accept, I have no idea how the numbers were obtained. Were any deaths related to radiation or were they just part of the mechanics of the unfolding events?
And proving beyond doubt that any death is the result of exposure to radiation is difficult other than obvious massive exposure at the time of the accident. The kind that leads to near instant pathology.
But is nuclear power generation going to take strategy from the tobacco industry? Quibble over deaths provable beyond doubt while ignoring the obvious other effects - especially since many effects take years to manifest.
And those other effects - economic disruption, areas sealed off from productive and profitible use in maintaining an economy, and the Public relations disaster, amplified by people who act as if nothing happened and that anyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid, is only deniable by a level of denial that ranks up with young earth creationists.
Nuclear denialism as it were. Instead of claiming that there is no problem and that the other side is retarded, nuc proponents should be the angriest mofos about this textbook case of how not to build and operate a nuclear power plant.
There is too much energy confined in a small place - and that jinn want's out of it's bottle - to try to operate in such a fashion.
The proponents need to own the sins of the industry. Otherwise they'll just be cranks, squealing how everyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid. When in fact, as Shakespeare said it so well - "a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more - it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
I'm not sure TMI should even be counted. It was scary, but in the end it didn't kill anyone or even release significant radiation. For that matter much of the panic was a result of the unfortunate timing with the release of "The China Syndrome" and the media being anxious to connect the two.
Cannot argue with that. TMI isn't in the same league.
http://groundwork.org.za/archi...
I don't support coal in the least. It is filthy, hazardous to health, and it's mining effects are ruinous. The sooner we leave it in the ground, the better.
But I am still waiting for the millions number.
http://theconversation.com/the-other-reason-to-shift-away-from-coal-air-pollution-that-kills-thousands-every-year-78874
Thousands, amirite? Coal sucks big time. But when we exaggerate, it gives detractors a weapon.
The problem is, coal has been killing millions of people a year by spewing out radiation and other pollution. And yet human psychology says it's better to kill millions intentionally with coal rather than risk killing thousands by accident with nuclear. Accidents scare us more because we assign fault to them, perhaps. We can accept any number of routine matter-of-course cost-of-doing-business deaths, but we cannot abide a single dramatic accidental death.
Can you give me the citations showing that millions of people have been killed by coal?
Nobody has been harmed by Fukushima radiation (not even the case where they 'legally' attributed a death with no medical basis
ahem
Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant died after suffering radiation exposure.
The man, who was in his 50s, died from lung cancer that was diagnosed in 2016.
Japan's government had previously agreed that radiation caused illness in four workers but this is the first acknowledged death.
Funny definition of "nobody" you have there.
Or the dead people they found in the generator room.
But the nucKooks will just move the goalposts to preserve their "No one"
I don't think the seawalls were the ultimate problem.
I think the ultimate problem was the siting of the backup generators. Had they been positioned higher, and continued to operate, the meltdown would have been avoided. They actually put some of the backup generators in a basement. This was an issue that was known about well before the disaster.
Yes - the overtopping of the sea walls allowed salt water to ingress to the emergency generators. But the walls were overtopped by 14 meter waves. The seawalls were 10 meters in height. The big problem was that the area was historically known for bigger waves.
To make matters weirder, the site was originally on a 35 meter bluff, but they scalped 25 meters off it so they could rest the reactor on bedrock.
The generator placement was definitely bad, but if they had not scalped the mountain, and raised the seawall to a height that was able to withstand tsunami that was simply going to occur, the precipitating problem of soaking the generators wouldn't have happened.
There was no deadline issue involved in moving the generators to a safer location.
Perhaps it's time to stop blaming the disaster on technical issues and blame greed instead. That's why it is right that some people should go to jail.
I don't disagree. The pity is that the people who originated the terribly bad decisions in the first place are probably dead now. That doesn't absolve the following people's liability, so punish away.
Are you seriously that stupid or are you trolling for the anti-Nike side? Itâ(TM)s fucking incredible the level of reality and logic disconnect in your statement.
You still illustrate exactly why people think that nuc people ar as trustable as Jerry Sandusky around ten year old boys. Allow me to explain.
You (apparently) and many of the pro nuc crowd meet every criticism be calling the person who has the nerve to question any aspect as stupid, detached form reality, and illogical. When in fact, I am not anti-nuc. I consider you the enemy from within. The pro nuc person who systematically destroys the credibility by acting like a smug asshole. When in fact, all you offer for disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima is bullshit like "It won't happen again, New reactors are perfectly safe" or "Not one single person was killed.
And then they get to see what happened at those sites. It's like looking at the reactors in Fukushima exploding aznd you seem to think that people are wanting to get that at home."
And all you offer in return is derision and calling them stupid. When in fact you are indeed seeing a weird sort of stupidity that masquerades as smug superiority - It is your reflection in the mirror. You harm what you profess to support. Nuc Energy has a terrible P.R. Problem, and you only make it worse.
Come back and discuss when you aren't a weak troll, because you are helping make those who you consider the enemy's case.
It is coming back again. Look at Microsoft who we LOVE to bash. Office 2016 reintroduced a radical concept of colors. Office 2019 has 2007 style icons again here
Cool! Good to see that the flat ugly tile is going to the hell it deserves. Those new icons are completely acceptable.
You forgot the War on Christmas
Yeah, why try to harden or put in safeguards at any facility, because fuck it, it's an act of god. The executives didn't directly kill anyone, it was the flying debris and deadly chemical cloud, and a warning was in fact issued.
They were just following orders.
I find it fascinating that you assume I am in the US, or a US citizen. Which I am not.
Everyone is pretty fascinated this morning. That's fascinating in itself.
The actual Fukushima death toll is still zero, no matter how much you hate capitalism.
You seem to be out of the loop regarding something we call: news.
You and I both know that he's going to come up with some wild thing like "Well - people who were hiding in caves at the time - not one of them was even affected, much less killed!"
Also bizzare how some pro nucs have taken to claiming that having evidence based concerns are somehow anti-capitalist. Especially with extensive Guvmint subsidies and the Price Anderson act just to allow them to exist, Nuc plants are the very embodiment of socialism.
According to the WHO and Japanese gouvernment, the direct death toll of the Fukushima disaster was: Zero. https://ourworldindata.org/wha...
The indirect results from radiation related issues and evacuation stress was not zero, but I find it hard to argue that the executives are directly responsible for the deaths of so many people. The tsunami itself caused tremendous devastation and evacuation was a given, with or without the nuclear plant there.
Don't even wonder why the general citizenry doesn't trust the pro-nuc clan. You are the personification of why.
Do a little research as to exactly why there was no other outcome but catastrophic failure for the Fukushima site.
All human decisions that from a safety, standpoint are inexplicable outside of straightforward explanation that there was corruption involved.