If you read your own links you'll note that literally nobody can directly attribute any negative consequences in humans from radiation.
It's all conjecture. The only direct cause of harm is the 1600 that died in the evacuation.
It's all conjecture. The only direct cause of harm is the 1600 that died in the evacuation.
That's incorrect. It's about timing and managing public opinion. Saying they haven't died yet (or deaths not being attributeed), is a matter of PR. Splitting hairs is hand wringing of the highest order. I hand you a pellet that emits 30rads and you throw it away, but have blood disorders and hemorrhages in 6 months that ultimately kill you...was that not an attributable death?
The radiation has had a measurable effect, eg http://www2.ans.org/misc/FukushimaSpecialSession-Caracappa.p... which will not be attributed because of a lack of ability to directly correlate individuals and cancer sources via modern methods (most importantly, for liability purposes), not because there is an uncertainty about the result of such exposure in a population. It's not 0-1 deaths.