[jf-]

It’s not unreasonable to be cautious. Nuclear accidents did happen, which is what lead people to fear nuclear power, even if it is safer than the public realises. Not barging full speed ahead into unknown technologies with large downside potential is only sensible.

[ogrisel]

The public is also afraid of nuclear technology because of nuclear weapons used to destroy the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a single bomb each time.

[snovv_crash]

I would argue that the weaponization of nuclear power, and a generation growing up with nuclear bomb drills, was what drove the fear of nuclear. Before that people were putting it in their toothpaste.