This from today’s Wall Street Journal editorial:

After a once-in-300-years earthquake, the Japanese have been keeping cool amid the chaos, organizing an enormous relief and rescue operation, and generally earning the world’s admiration. We wish we could say the same for the reaction in the U.S., where the troubles at Japan’s nuclear reactors have produced an overreaction about the risks of modern life and technology.

Part of the problem is the lack of media proportion about the disaster itself. The quake and tsunami have killed hundreds, and probably thousands, with tens of billions of dollars in damage.

This from today’s Wall Street Journal main website page:

Now, I’m no nuclear Luddite.  But with many things I’ve learned to be skeptical, especially of what we don’t know.  The benefits of nuclear power are great.  The costs can be too.