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I think it's fair to say that for Wikipedia standards, the page is a bit long. However, I think it's also fair to say that a power station accident on this scale should not be held to the standard of a celebrity biography page. I don't believe the section describing the series of events can be meaningfully shortened without significantly reducing the quality of the information. Also, in my personal opinion, the description of the event should probably take priority on the main page over the following political fights and whatnot, which are similarly long.
For now, I have removed the discussion template from units 1-3 to improve readability but discussion should continue here. Inanimatecarbonrobin (talk) 16:55, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Most such events are described in a very detailed way as they unroll and shortly after, with lots of speculations and little details that seem important at that time. After 10 years, most of that is completely irrelevant and can be removed or summarised, and whole paragraphs can be compressed to one sentence. Cloud200 (talk) 19:03, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In the article it lists 2,202 deaths from evacuation in the info box, unfortunately I cannot check the sourced article due to a paywall but the number aligns closely to the 2,220 patients and elderly under the Fatalities section.
Following the source provided in the Fatalities section, it does not state that they died, just that those were the number of hospital inpatients and elderly people in nursing facilities in the surrounding area before the evacuation. Rather the death numbers listed were 12 of a group of 27 severe patients and later reported more than 50. Which matches the number of 51 given by the government elsewhere in the article.
The article says specifically 2,202 deaths "from evacuation stress, interruption to medical care and suicide" according to the government's Reconstruction Agency, and that "[t]he wider death toll from the quake was 15,895, according to the National Police Agency." 1,984 of the deaths were over 65, again according to the Financial Times, so take from that what you will. Reconrabbit (talk|edits) 21:36, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think a total of 50 or so are attributed to the evacuation. Not 2000+ BoNiLi (talk) 20:44, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I was confused based on what the article said about this as well but the 2200+ number checks out from multiple sources. Source for the 50 number in the article text doesn't seem accessible but it seems like it's from a very limited set of people in hospitals or nursing homes while the 2200+ number is the entire population within the evacuated zone. Leaving the mention of the 50+ number in the article but I've added a mention of the wider number. – Stuart98 ( Talk • Contribs) 09:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
nuclear accident : why not "nuclear disaster" ...[edit]
Hello, I am french, I write to you in english, learned at school, not very good, I wish you can understand...
Fukushima disaster is more important than a so-called nuclear "accident". In french : accident nucléaire.
Isn't it rather a nuclear "disaster", in french : catastrophe nucléaire.
This is an important debate.
I wish the french wikipedia would write : CATASTROPHE nucléaire de Fukushima.
Thank you for your response
Evelyne Genoulaz 89.3.51.240 (talk) 08:08, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This article used to be called Fukushima nuclear disaster, but it was moved after a discussion. See the link near the top of this page. As for French Wikipedia's title, that's not anything that English Wikipedia has any say over. Meters (talk) 08:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]