I believe he died today. He was 60.
How many people in Japan were killed by one of the largest earthquakes and tsunamis ever? The last numbers I saw were between thirty and forty thousand. How many were killed at the Fukushima Power Plant, on the coast, hit directly by the tsunami? None! The Fukushima facility may have been the safest place to be when the quake and Tsunami hit.
How many people were killed by the complete meltdown of Three Mile Island? None. Commercial nuclear power has killed not a single person, worker or civilian, as a result of its nuclear attributes. People have no doubt fallen off of loading docks delivering snacks or fallen from ladders replacing light fixtures.
Even the ancient weapon-fuel generating reactor at Chernobyl, with no pressure vessel or containment building, caused more injuries by being off line, since its coal replacement kills more each year from pulmonary diseases than died from the meltdown, fire, and radiation release - more than twice as many! The USSR was a failing economy. They didn't have the means to replace the graphite core reactors used for weapons grade material with boiling water or steam reactors. The energy produced was still critical to the economy of The Ukraine, and better than coal for people's health. Coal is still better than no electrical energy and the revolution which would result.
Fukushima is confirmation that there is currently no safer source of electrical energy than nuclear. The hysteria is generated, to a large extent, by people who don't like free enterprise, and are fellow travelers with Obama’s comrades.