"It was too high a price to pay," Tower says. "It's one of the inexcusable blunders of humanity that makes even me want to roll my eyes and turn my back. If you want a nuclear catastrophe that brought change for the good, look to Chernobyl; but that wasn't Japanese. The stones are still falling from the ruins of Fukushima, so we can't say yet if that will bring a change for the better."