Megan McArdle has a decent post discussing the problem of Japanese debt and reconstruction costs (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/how-will-j

Megan McArdle has a decent post discussing the problem of Japanese debt and reconstruction costs (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/how-will-japan-finance-its-reconstruction/72457/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/how-will...). Naturally the nuclear power plants came up and eventually I agreed with another commenter about the overblown claims about radiation dangers with: "From decades of reading, I have come to the conclusion that Greens think you can get cancer from the word nuclear, actual exposure isn't required."