Show Details The nuclear reactor catastrophes at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now at Fukushima, Japan, remind us that a heinous specter continues to hover over the health and security of millions of people around the world. Not only does the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation linger but every nuclear station sits as a ticking bomb awaiting meltdown and terrorist attack. Many Russian studies conclude that Chernobyl killed approximately a million people since the 1986 meltdown. And the cost of the Daiichi Fukushima crisis may be substantially higher.