When major disasters like Fukushima fail to materialize the media is disappointed. The truth is that Nuclear Power Plants are designed to respond to violent storms and, although never tested, terrorist attacks. So all they have left in order to get attention is to make exaggerated and false claims often twisting the truth in order to attract readers.
http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2011/09/30/nuclear_plants_withstand_natures_fury_106297.html