The fatalities from the 6000 Thyroid cancer cases post Chernobyl - I actually read somewhere it was 8000 is included in the 60. There were just 15 deaths from those 6-8000.
The atomic bomb survivors is probably the most closely studied cohort in human history - by a joint US/Japanese group formed in 1945/46, Around 450 - 500 have died from causes that could be sheeted home to the actual attacks in the 65 years since. The survivors are all now VERY old and cancer is essentially a disease of old age...what % of cancer patients world wide were at Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
No one is saying there were no transient spikes of radiation close to the reactors - just that over all there is NOTHING that justifies the overhyped reporting that has been on going since the earth quake/tsunami. If you're going to quote from that report quote it completely and in context. The also say quite clearly the radiation found on vegetables and in milk have been well below levels considered injurious to health.
So far more people have been admitted to hospital from panic consumption of Thyroid protective drugs in the United States than we know have been effected by radiation in the immediate area of the reactors - that may change - but thus far there is absolutely NO justification for the disgraceful reporting that is ongoing.
How much credible science is being used in the reports by the MSM - how much was used by the 'expert' interviewed on 3AW claiming millions might die? None that I can see. That link from IAEA was on Bolt's blog.
Perspective is what you lack dutchroll - people die all the time. How many die as a result of radiation compared to die in coal mines, wind farms, oil rigs, car accidents, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, war, extra judicial murder by despotic or theocratic govts - I could go on.
We are witnessing the MSM in action against one of their environmental bogeymen, nuclear power. Where is the balanced reporting?
If Fukushima ends up as bad as Chernobyl - and there is zero chance of that - 60 people might die. That is a tragedy - but not as great a tragedy as 15000 dying in an earthquake/tsunami - let alone the children now orphaned etc. But the MSM have lost interest in that aspect already, and its been mere days.
The very real worry is this self indulgent feast of biassed reporting might actually do long term harm to the nuclear power industry around the world and even more people will be pushed into energy poverty and die as a result.
Bet you don't see THAT tragedy reported in the MSM.