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> People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event,

160,000 people were displaced and will live in school gyms for the rest of their lives. Most have lost their livelihoods.

I suggest you talk to them before saying they have "not been harmed."

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I'm volunteering to live next to the reactor, because I think the risk of doing so is negligible. I am legally prohibited from doing so, and these people were legally prohibited from staying. If there is in fact no ongoing physical health risk as I am claiming, the harm caused to them is part of the psychological damage from (the cultural context around) nuclear power that I mentioned. It doesn't lessen what these people have been through of course.

This is a circular argument:

1. people might get harmed by the radiation (true)

2. evacuate them (still arguably sensible)

3. radiations caused harm because people were evacuated

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