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Today, some scientists claim that as many as one million people have died of the effects from the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
How many will eventually die from Japan's ongoing Fukushima disaster?
WSJ: "The threat of meltdown at the Japanese plant—already ranked the second-worst nuclear accident in history by the French nuclear-safety authority—comes as Ukraine is still dealing with the impact of the Chernobyl blast as it approaches the 25th anniversary."
But "... the problems at Fukushima are unlikely to reach the scale of the Soviet disaster, which ... released 30 tons of nuclear fuel, causing radiation 10,000 times as high as what has been recorded so far around the Japanese plant."
"The worst legacy for Ukrainians has been psychological. The U.N. study said the people from affected areas were gripped by a "paralyzing fatalism," in part because of a lack of information about the effects of radiation."
