The death toll from Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami has today surpassed 10,000 people, with more than 17,000 missing and a quarter of a million people displaced.
You could argue however, that the lion’s share of media coverage continues to focus on Fukushima and the nuclear crisis unfolding there.
The 25th anniversary of the meltdown, fire, and subsequent contamination of thousands of square kilometres of the Ukraine and Belarus from the Chernobyl disaster was marked with an announcement by officials that they will be opening up the site for tourism this year. 
If you are teaching MYP science now, your students will likely have been born at or well after Chernobyl’s 10 year anniversary. Suffice it to say they’ve probably never heard of it, which is a shame because it provides a rich vein of scientific issues and concepts that could be mined in your science classroom.
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