In this section we have quite often highlighted what has happened and what is happening at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. We have given concrete data, but in most cases data breakdowns have been given at specific locations and times. The information is controlled by the managing companies of the Japanese plant TEPCO, together with the Government of Japan. The official information is scarce, and the argument that is generally used is that with the current data you cannot scientifically deduct anything from Fukushima.

A scientific statement takes time, a lot of data and its trend needs to be clear. Therefore, TEPCO is right when it says that a few data here and there do not have a sufficient scientific basis, but it is forgotten – intentionally – that in order to reach a conclusion that suggests scientific sense we have to look for data, not hide it.

In this sense, what was pointed out by nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen has become very significant. According to Gundersen, it is true that with the data published to date a strong scientific statement is not possible, “but it is enough to work to see how much abnormality there is among people living in the Fukushima environment.”

Gundersen believes it may be early to know how many people have died in Fukushima from cancer, but it is clear that both cancer and other diseases have increased dramatically, that depression has increased, that there are problems in ecosystems... Ethics tells us that we are facing a serious problem, but where ethics comes, science has not yet arrived, among other reasons because no one is making a systematic collection of data. Meanwhile, the Fukushima authorities are going to demand science over ethics.