Perhaps not. But there is a larger problem. Humankind needs power. But all that power that we get is in some way dirty. Nuclear is self-explanatory. Hydro kills huge lands and little fishes. Coal is radioactive and mining destroys lands, and all that smoke is not good for us either. Oil is getting harder to obtain. Solar is not energy-efficient, and semiconductor manufacturing is very poisonous. What do we have left?
There is an alternative, though. We can reduce our energy consumption. But if we do so then we have to reduce the population as well, since primitive farming (with animals for motive force) will not be able to feed 6+ billion people, especially when majority of them will have no jobs. We don't even have enough arable land for 6 billion newly minted peasants. Humans are alive and well today largely because modern intensive agriculture can feed us.
Without energy modern medicine will cease to be. We will be thrown back into middle ages where a horse was the best vehicle you could hope for. Plague and other maladies would become commonplace without proper sanitation (that requires energy.)
I don't want to say that TEPCO and their ilk should be allowed to do whatever they want, unchecked. However it's not enough to say "this won't work" - we need to have a plan, a list of things that will work. I haven't seen such a plan yet - a plan, at least, that does not decimate the population.
Besides, let's assume for the moment that we let 9/10 of the people to die off. The survivors go back into caves. But is such a life worth it? You probably will live longer near Fukushima than in a cave far away from it. The first cold winter, pneumonia, no antibiotics, and you are done for. A newborn's chance of survival would be also pretty low. But Gaia would be happy, I guess.
“But there is a larger problem.”
The larger problem is that the public, and the will of the people, is being undermined by an industry subsidized and leveraged by their government. It’s a corrupting arrangement and the public is lied to, shouted down, and regulated out of participating in the proper governance and risks associated with resources.