"There are big differences between Chernobyl and Fukushisma.

Chernobyl was one nuclear reactor located in the URSS, it was a Russian product and Russians were Communist in those days, Communists always lie and Russia has always crapy products.

Fukushima is a plant with six nuclear reactors. It are an American GE product and Japan and the US are Capitalists countries, paladins of the truth and their products are the best and always use the top technology."

Yes, there are big differences between what happened at Chernobyl and what's going on at Fukushima currently.

First of all, they had some communist party hacks at Chernobyl, running experiments they really had no business running. The  cooling system was different and also the reactor actually blew up.

The reactors at Fukushima haven't blown up. But the cooling systems have failed, hence the desperate effort to cool them down with sea water. The explosions were hydrogen explosions.  As far as I can tell, they have had partial meltdown(s) there.  Japanese government has pretty much confirmed it, or they strongly suspect it. Perhaps some of the spent fuel rods have also partially melted down in some of the facilities. And it is also possible that some of the containment units were compromised becuase of the explosions.

But the technology is decades old. It was controversial from the very beginning. Admiral Ryckover said that the specific design used by GE, wasn't proper for civillian use (it was originally used in Nuclear submarines).  The containment units were considered to be  inadequate.

Whether a government is called a democratic or communist, in my view doesn't matter all that much. Both are under pressure to present a rosy scenario to their people.  In communism, the party doesn't like to be told the truth, in capitalism investors will punish you for delivering news that are bad for the economy.

As for the rest of your post; I don't neccesarily disagree, but I am simply not competent enough to speculate as to why the Japanese decided to do what they did, or  why they have the kind of systems in place that they have. I simply don't know enough. My personal fear is, that their systems do not differ all that much from the systems and practices that are being used all over the world by the industry. So, that's my little speculation there. I can't really prove it, so it's pointless.

D'oh! Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?