Modern day human sacrifices

Nature unleashed a catastrophe on the people of Japan on March 11th, 2011. But TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the Japanese government, may have unleashed unimaginable suffering on it's citizens after Fukushima Daiichi and Daini Nuclear Power Stations we're damaged by the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake. A devastating tsunami followed it, affecting the stricken reactors ability to cool down.
After the tsunami waters receded to reveal an estimated 20,000 dead and massive damage, the Japanese were clued to their televisions watching former Prime Minister Kan and party head Edano address the nation about the fated Fukushima Nuclear Power Station.
Don't worry, no need to panic, it will not harm your health...were the kind of messages repeated. They incouraged people to breathe contaminated air, eat contaminated food and continue life as normal. Any Japanese citizen who questioned the world's worst nuclear disaster in one of the worlds most technologically advanced nations was set upon. Worried mothers are branded spreaders of “baseless rumours”, researchers, bloggers etc were discouraged or even threatened.
With PMs Kan and Noda ignoring international advise, confused residents were evacuated from only 20 km away. The rest was stuck, and even encouraged to live in vast areas with higher radiation than Chenobyl's uninhabitable zone.
Still 10 months later, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station is crippled, unapproachable and spewing extremely high levels of dangerous ionising radiation into the sea, air and the water table.
Every day seems to see a new complication and a new scandalous political decision or cover-up.
Fears of compensation and relocation costs, and the prospect of mass panic (PM Noda’s announcement to the world about a “cold shutdown state”)have prevented the government from at least evacuating parts of Tokyo and it's surrounds, leaving large amounts of Japanese citizens living in irradiated habitats.
Lessons learned from Chenobyl seem abandoned, as people are exposed to low level radiation on a daily basis. Whether such exposure will inhibit immune systems, derange DNA and lead to infertility or lead to much more sinister effects is only to be revealed in time.
With nobody sure where the Corium (melted fuel) is and predictions of explosions when it melts through to the water table, coupled with the ongoing seismic activity around the fragile reactors and fuel pools, TEPCO’s prediction of 40 years to clean it all up seems very impressive.