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But Fukushima did render a fairly large area uninhabitable, and the ongoing cleanup is still costing billions every year.

ironically, there has been research to determine that a lot of the initial evacuation actually exposed people to MORE radiation, than had they not evacuated, interestingly, they did see an increase in cancer rates, and what not, down the road. However, it wasn't statistically significant compared to other stats from other places.

So even if it did matter, it seems in terms of healthcare, it was a statistical anomaly, more than a concern.

Plus now we have some really cool radiation detecting networks that are volunteer(?) led, it's been a while since i've read into this, but these systems give us a MUCH better idea of what's happening now with radiation, than when it happened. So if it did happen again, the results would be even better.