"Thirty-one people have since been killed in the plant's various explosions."

[Strelnikov_]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-fathers-goodbye-live-well-i-cannot-be-home-for-a-while-2245411.html

Many workers at Fukushima, however, have to ignore any warnings to leave. It was the earthquake that first compromised the plant's reactors last Friday. While the workers tried to stabilise them, they knew a a tsunami was approaching. Thirty-one people have since been killed in the plant's various explosions.

First I have seen this reported. Misprint?

[bananas]

1. "Thirty-one people have since been killed in the plant's various explosions."

That's a minimum estimate so far...

[Strelnikov_]

2. Has this been reported elsewhere?

Considering the damage caused by some of the blasts, I thought that the reports of only minor injuries seemed a bit optimistic.

[AndyTiedye]

5. Some Had Been Listed as "Missing"

Though anyone who has been "missing" after a huge explosion in a radioactive hot zone for this long can be presumed dead.

The world honors the sacrifices of those who have died or will die trying to bring this disaster under control.

[Hannah Bell]

3. i saw an earlier listing of injuries. i didn't see anything like that.

i will try to find what i saw.

[pinto]

4. I've seen it mentioned here that the Independent is an iffy source.

Leans towards sensational, tabloid type stuff. All other reports I've read as far as the quake goes, before the tsunami, was that the reactors responded as intended, i.e. shut down. :shrug:

[RC]

6. The anti-nukers won't like that part.

That the reactors were responding as intended, i.e. shutting down part. More proof the tsunami was the real problem.

[Yo_Mama]

7. It's false, I believe.

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110319-1.pdf

This is the whole list dead and injured as of NISA's 31st update.

1. Injury due to earthquake
- Two employees (slightly)
- Two subcontract employees (one fracture in both legs)
- Two missing (TEPCO’s employee, missing in the turbine building of Unit 4)
- One emergency patient (According to the local prefecture, one patient of cerebral infarction was transported by the ambulance).
- Ambulance was requested for one employee complaining the pain at left chest outside of control area (conscious).
- Two employees complaining discomfort wearing full-face mask in the main control room were transported to the industrial doctor of Fukushima Dai-ni NPS.

2. Injury due to the explosion of Unit 1 of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS
- Four employees were injured at the explosion and smoke of Unit 1 around turbine building (out of control area) and were examined by Kawauchi clinic.


3. Injury due to the explosion of Unit 3 of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS
- Four TEPCO’s employees
- Three subcontractor employees
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- Four members of Self-Defence Force (one of them was transported to National Institute of Radiological Sciences considering internal possible exposure. The examination resulted in no internal exposure. The member was discharged from the institute on March 16th.)


4. Other injuries
- A person who visited the climic in Fukushima Dai-ni NPS from a transformer sub-station, claiming of a stomachache, was transformed to a clinic in Iwaki city, because the person was not contaminated.