After Fukushima, The 'Nuclear People' Emerge

This is exactly what my thoughts are.

Anthropologist Hugh Gusterson, author of People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex, says that before Fukushima, most nuclear engineers would probably have said the risks of a major accident were virtually nonexistent. "Fukushima has, until memory fades, made that a very difficult position to sustain," Gusterson says. "So you now have a new fallback position: No energy technology is risk-free, and the risks of nuclear energy, even with the occasional accident, still make it a good choice."
He says, "This is not at all what people who live near nuclear power plants have been told when those plants come up for licensing. They have been told that the plants are quite safe."

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135005136/after-fukushima-the-nuclear-people-emerge