I only recently found out that Chernobyl was still a functioning power plant until 2000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Ch...
In comparison the Tohoku Tsunami caused 25k casualties, which (outside of Japan) seem have been largely ignored over by the coverage of the radiation leaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
fukushima is still leaking. 400 tons of radioactive water. this will probably go on forever. the meltdown may have reached ground water. nobody knows because tepco and japans enlighted gov won't tell.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/whats-really-going-on...