Hmmm! When we TODAY compare what is STILL ongoing in JAPAN, with what happened in Chernobyl we get the following numbers:
As of TODAY JAPAN is RAINING down NUCLEAR contaminants upon 137 MILLION people. Chernobyl only RAINED upon 2 Million. (1:68 Ratio)
Chernobyl was STOPPED from doing so within 14 Days.
JAPAN is still doing so at DAY 73 and COUNTING.
So, the JAPAN/TEPCO EVENT is NOW in simple terms, only 68 Times LARGER than the Chernobyl EVENT and getting LARGER everyday. 
BUT hey, since I do not live in any of the CONTAMINATED AREAS (ALL OF JAPAN AND THE NW UNITED STATES)  OR AM I ONE (1) OF THE 137 MILLION PEOPLE BEING RAINED ON with between 10 Hot Particles/Fuel fleas and 5 Hot Particles/Fuel Fleas PER DAY and PER PERSON, including Pregnant Women and Children, and since I am not a woman or a CHILD, WHAT SHOULD I CARE?

@ Pete: Yes, but two wrongs don't make a right.
@Nay Lin Maung: I fail to understand what part of nuclear failures make sense. Nishiyama makes a convincing and reassuring address to our concerns. Yet, he fails to broach the subject of public health in the hands (at the mercy of) private corporations. For example, no mention of the evidence of neglected safety warnings, brought to light courtesy& nbsp;of Wikileaks. No acknowledgement of the fact that governments are entrusting profit driven corporations with our lives. Yes, the tsunami was unprecedented, but with modern scientific instruments, these events are not essentially unpredicatable. Natural and anthropogenically caused disasters have happened before this, should we keep tempting fate and blame the average person for his lack of understanding of physical energy risks? Seems to me, the supposed experts may need some extra-curricular education.

Japan does not have a lot of natural resources to supply his domestic needs for consuming energy.   It means that Japan has to use nuclear energy even though it is very dangerous to use in this moment.    He has no chance but to use for his energy needs.   It makes sense.

The big money behind the LNG industry (owns MSM) wants us to believe that nuclear energy is unsafe.  But the fact is that it is much more dangerous to be running gas lines where earthquakes can happen.  Funny how this gets no media coverage.