The ground water at and around the disaster site is contminated.

The Cesium 137 in the area of the 4 leaking reactors now stands at double what Chernobyl was releasing when it was decided to evacuate everyone within 50 miles.

By criteria I hold as important, this diaster is as bad or worse than Chenobyl and is still capable of massive explosions (not like Hiroshima) but even more deadly taken on a time scale of the killing ability of the radioactive debris for the next million years.
Even if the 1900 tons of stored fuel do not have a fission excurision, the deadly qualities of this metal will still last for a million years



THE BEST CASE SCENARIO
Is if we can devise a massive way of breaking the half lives of these metals all the way down to a mere 100 years. What has left the area is a lost cause, but a project to do something like speeding up the decay until it is no more lethal than slightly radioactive lead, would be a god send.

Projected deaths from cancers world wide would be cut down.

I stress that mneasuring who lives and who dies should be over a time scale that we never talk about, thousands of generations.