Stuff get cheaper because people are hysterical. Good for me. I like cheap stuff. You're saying, that I should take idiots seriously, because idiots think idiotic things and act in idiotic ways and thereby influence the real world. However, the reality doesn't care about what idiots think. The reality is, that more people died due to the evacuation of fukushima, than would have died without the evacuation. Another reality is, that simply dumping nuclear waste into the ocean is pretty safe. There's a rotting russian nuclear submarine with radiation leaks in front of the coast of norway, and it's still very hard to even detect an increase in radiation levels right next to the submarine. Also, if you'd eat pure fissile uranium 235, you'd need to eat about 50g of it to even get radiation sickness. From a chemical perspective Uranium is as toxic as lead, so you'd die of heavy-metal poisoning long before the radiation can harm you. And lead isn't nearly as toxic as many other common chemicals you're in contact with. Fluoride in toothpaste or ethylene-glycol in mouth rinse can easily kill you, and people put those directly into their mouths. And, btw, it's possible to kill people with nothing but table-salt. Just eat enough salt, and your heart is going to stop, because you'll get an imbalance in electrolytes within your nerves, and your nerves are going to stop transmitting the signals from your brain to your heart. Potassium and magnesium salts are even better suited to stop your heart from beating. As a matter of fact, you need to eat less of those salts to die, than you'd need to eat of pure uranium to get radiation sickness. And yet people eat those as supplements.