Three years on

 Today marks the third anniversary of the 東北地方太平洋沖地震 (Great East Japan Earthquake). We now know that:
* 15,884 people died that day and a further 2,633 are still officially listed as 'missing'.
* A further 3,048 people have died in the intervening three years from the effects of the disaster, through illness, post traumatic stress disorder, and suicide.
* 267,000 people are still living in so-called 'temporary evacuation housing'. 
* There have been no fatalities from the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
* Of the 245,000 children under the age of 18 from Fukushima who have been tested, 75 are suspected of having thyroid cancer.
* The usual rate of thyroid cancer in Japanese children aged between 10 and 14 is one in a million.
* In Japan prior to March 11th, 2011, the annual radiation exposure limit for a child was set at 1 millisievert.
* The current annual radiation exposure limit for a child is now 20 millisieverts. This is the same as for an adult.
* All of Japan's potentially operable 50 nuclear reactors are currently idle.
* Cost to date of maintaining the idle reactors: $12.3 billion.
* Amount of contaminated water held in storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant: 300,000 tonnes.
* Planned storage capacity: 800,000 tonnes.
* Amount of 'new' ground water contaminated with radioactivity everyday that then needs to be extracted and stored: 400 tonnes.
* Estimated length of time needed to decommission the plant: 40 years.