“You can start by telling me what, exactly, was so horrible about Japan.”
It appears that the only sense you have is Non-Sense. If you can honestly say that then it is just a waist of time to discuss any of this with you. You sure are insensitive to the people lives that have been turned upside down over there.
I'll do my best not to "waiste" your time, but I can't let this one go.
FYI, the widow of my best friend lives in Japan, and was displaced by the tsunami, but that's not what we're talking about. You brought up the destruction of the Japanese reactors at Fukushima as an example of the horrors of nuclear power, and that is what my question addressed. Now, ANY accident that involves casualties is something to be lamented, but it sounds to me like you don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. For the record, there were no deaths at Fukushima as a result of the meltdown. Six workers exceeded legal lifetime limits for radiation exposure. Credible estimates for future cancer deaths attributable to the meltdown number from zero to a few dozen, depending on the study. Again, these figures are not to be celebrated, but Fukusima was a worst case scenario, and it simply wasn't as bad as the no-nukes crowd predicted. The ultra-libral NY Times ran a story last fall reiterating this. The anti-nukes crowd was basically salivating over this one, and it turned out to be not such a big deal.