Deaths that wouldn't have occurred had a mass evacuation not taken place.

Here's a paper analyzing the evacuation-related deaths from Hurricane Rita.

> A majority of the deaths (90/108 or 83.3%) were related to the mass evacuation process. Of these deaths, 10% were directly related to hyperthermia in motor vehicles. The combination of traffic gridlock and high temperatures, limitation of air conditioning to reduce fuel consumption, reduction of oral intake to decrease restroom visits, and conservation of limited supplies is suspected.

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(16)51609-2/f...

(Note: I've limited the snippet here, it's worth reading in context from the abstract.)

> What would evacuation deaths even be?

I think some deaths occurred when evacuating hospital patients.

1600 people is an enormous number of deaths. It would have been reported.

I've followed Fukushima news since it happened, and never heard of this before.

1,600 seems a little high, my memory was about half of that. 100% due to the evacuation, not the reactor. It's just politically inconvenient deaths tend to get labeled something else, often the underlying condition that was exacerbated by whatever the issue da jour is. I've never seen a breakdown of exactly what caused the evacuation deaths but when you go shipping a bunch of frail patients around in a total mess you should *expect* deaths.