Grist: Nuclear energy gives plenty of people the heebie-jeebies: Like horror-movie ghosts and ancestral curses, you can`t see or feel or smell it, but it can still kill you. So when Japan`s Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged in March 2011, releasing a flood of radioactive cesium-tinged water into the Pacific, nervous nancies the world over took note. And that note, typically, was: PANIC!!!!!1!!11!
First of all: No. Don`t. While some wafting fallout hit the U.S. in the first months after the disaster...