Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power

Two years on, despite all the idiotic fearmongering from clueless media and politicians, the facts are much the same:

Quoting Bloomberg:

And what of the lasting threat from radiation?  Remarkably, outside the immediate area of Fukushima, this is hardly a problem at all.  Although the crippled nuclear reactors themselves still pose a danger, no one, including personnel who worked in the buildings, died from radiation exposure.  Most experts agree that future health risks from the released radiation, notably radioactive iodine-131 and cesiums-134 and -137, are extremely small and likely to be undetectable. [...]

Even in the most contaminated areas, any increase in cancer risk will be small.  For example, a male exposed at age 1 has his lifetime cancer risk increase from 43 percent to 44 percent.  Those exposed at 10 or 20 face even smaller increases in risk -- similar to what comes from having a whole-body computer tomography scan or living for 12 to 25 years in Denver amid background radiation in the Rocky Mountains.  (There is no discernible difference in the cancer rates between people who live in Denver and those in Los Angeles or New York.)

The Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis is still false.  Nuclear is still among the safest forms of energy we have.  Our media and our political class are still the worst we’ve ever had.