[Bernard Marx]

The real meltdown took place in the American media. Instead of focusing on lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that will take tens of thousands of lives, they went into an orgy of crisis-mongering over radiation fears that will probably kill no one.

I know only the basics of nuclear power generation (I lived about a mile downwind from the Diablo Canyon plant for 10 years so I did some studying). I'm much better informed on the subject than any TV anchor I watched -- including the vaunted Megyn Kelly whose Cassandra-rant I had to turn off today. The absolute Worst was Bill Nye, the Liberal Science Guy on CNN, who talked know-nothing gobbledegook.

[tanknetter]

Posting this preemptively, as it seems to show up (presented as truth) in most FR threads on the matter: