FOREIGN AFFAIRS Deaths after Fukushima due to excessive caution

A newly released study of deaths in the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has called for precaution with regard to the much-touted Precautionary Principle. The study, by economists at the universities of Columbia (United States), Nagoya (Japan) and Verona (Italy), and published by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, an independent economic research institute in Bonn, Germany, concluded that the closing of Japan’s nuclear power plants after the 2011 acci­dent at Fukushima resulted in death from cold of thousands of people. Domestic electricity costs rose by up to 38 per cent after the closures…