Reply #15: It's strange that the Daily Mail is the only source I can find on 5 deaths [View All]

[caraher]

And even that sentence is not clearly attributing the deaths to radiation; it mentions death and a belief on the part of some that they will be killed by radiation.

Elsewhere I've found that at least 17 have reached the elevated emergency dose limit and several workers suffered burns from beta radiation while working with their feet underwater at the plant.

Again, a fatal radiation dose is quite possible in this emergency - you just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time once. But it's strange that there's so little reporting apart from this one article if there really have been 5 acute radiation exposure deaths.