re: #212 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Because people remember meltdowns, and are not familiar with the concept of safe, modern reactors that canβt melt down. People suck at both internalizing new information, and assessing risk.
People also remember The China Syndrome - which, while it was a very good film, further hardened anti-nuclear attitudes, especially as it was released shortly before the Three Mile Island incident.