The nuclear crisis in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami led people to make comparisons to previous nuclear accidents at Chernobyl in 1986 and Three Mile Island in 1979. Human error at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine, resulted in a nuclear meltdown in which radiation spread across the Ukraine to read more »

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TOKYO (AP) — Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's
tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant gathered in protest at the Tokyo
headquarters of the plant's operator Wednesday demanding compensation as
the company's president pledged to do more to help those affected by
the crisis.

"I can't work and that means I have no money," said
Shigeaki Konno, 73, an auto repair mechanic, who lived seven miles (11
kilometers) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant before he was
evacuated along with tens of thousands of others due to radiation fears.
"The talk about compensation is not concrete. We need it quickly."