Which of these places would you prefer to visit? * Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant * Pripyat, Ukraine - near the Chernoby

Which of these places would you prefer to visit? * Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant * Pripyat, Ukraine - near the Chernobyl power plant * Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India - near the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant * Bullitt County, Kentucky - near the "Valley of the Drums" -- You choose lead as your example for chemical waste, but lead is only a moderate risk compared to the nastier chemical pollutants. The real hazards are things like the PCBs (among hundreds of other nasty chemicals) in the 100,000+ leaking drums at the "Valley of the Drums", or the 42 tons of methyl isocyanate sprayed over Bhopal. These incidents have already had significant costs in human lives and ongoing health problems for the local population. In comparison, Chernobyl killed only handful of people and Fukushima hasn't killed anybody yet. We are still waiting to see the costs of extra cancer cases from these disasters, but it won't be anything close to the damage from the chemical industries or coal power industries.