TEPCO risks all at Fukushima

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6. 171,000 people dead is not a catastrophic consequence?

You're also comparing apples and oranges. It's not how many have been killed to date. It's about the catastrophic consequences of one major disaster.

Wrong, it is about how many have been killed to date. That is how we calculate disasters, by the number of people killed. Whether it is war, air plane crashes, disease, 9/11, whatever.
Where are these 10 of millions of people you speak of? Japan? First some facts. The Earth is round, not flat. Radiation goes in straight lines, so the curvature of the earth acts as a shield. Normally anything over 20 miles away is safely below the horizon. Next, the radiation drops off with the square of the distance. Twice as far= 1/4 the radiation. It does not matter what kind of radiation. The wind and ocean currents protect Japan south of Fukushima, by flowing North and East, where the radiation get diluted to barely detectable levels. They have to use isotopes, not Geiger counters to detect the radiation, because the radiation is below the normal background levels. Also the distance between Tokyo and Fukushima is 148 miles, with mountains in between. Those mountains act as a shield. Tokyo is in not much danger here.
The cause of both disasters can be traced back to politics, not the engineers.
Fear mongering often comes from ignorance for use against he ignorant.