[InclinedPlane]

Fukushima was a half-century old design that was hit with a record breaking natural disaster and yet despite all that the disaster has resulted in a remarkable lack of death and catastrophe. Meanwhile, other methods of power generation continue to kill people by the wagon load every day and nobody seems to care much because we're comfortable with those ways of dying whereas we're creeped out about the spookiness of radiation.

[dogma1138]

Indeed it was on the other hand if you ask anyone if given the choice would they live within the meltdown blast radius from a nuclear reactor you'll pretty much hear a resounding no.