A couple of more incidents like Fukushima or Chernoble and people might start thinking Nuclear is a but dangerous.
As once these incident occur it is impossible to stop.
I started my college career pursuing a degree in nuclear engineering.
The spring of my freshman year, Three Mile Island happened. I saw the writing on the wall and switched majors.
I wasn't wrong. Years later, I was working for Harvard in their radiation safety department, and watched the last new plant in the country open -
Seabrook New Hampshire. Around that time, Chernobyl took place - and THAT was an example of very typical Russian development -
EXTREMELY weak on safety, backups, any kind of rational development. They might as well have built it in a basement.
And true to form, the Russians tried to HIDE it until the whole world knew. (They have before and since had MANY nuclear accidents
around their nation, and the surrounding towns are now missing from current maps, just as some of their cosmonauts just disappeared).
Fukushima was another matter. A well built reactor - in an extremely stupid place.
As much as we often tout nations like China and France, who develop most or significant portion of their power from nuclear -
we're still leading the world in nuclear power - and no accidents except for that little puff back in '79, which resulted in no deaths.
AND there are technologies to make nuclear *MUCH* safer - for example, LFTR and molten salt reactors, which CANNOT have meltdowns,
because they must be externally heated in order to operate.
I have great faith in the future of nuclear, if the research in it is allowed to progress.
Of course, the downside of nuclear is, it really just takes one seriously bad accident to literally blow it all to hell.
So - I do get it. I also remember that steam driven cars were touted as being much more inherently dangerous than gasoline engines,
and the advertisements went "do you want your children blown sky-high" with imagery suggesting the very same.
About the most dishonest campaign I've ever run across, historically.