Why, in the age of the internet where information is readily available, does the general public still have a fear of nuclear anything that goes beyond insanity? When a plane breaks while in use and causes the death of hundreds of people, how does the general public react? "Oh that;s sad, but they'll work out what went wrong a fix it" But when a nuclear reactor has even the slightest problem (and no one gets killed)? "BAN NUCLEAR THINK OF THE CHILDKIDS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" For reference, no one has died from the fukushima meltdown, and very few people have gotten serious radiation issues, and that's from a powerplant that is several decades old - I would call that an amazing feat of human engineering, and yet governments are breaking their backs trying to ban anything related to nuclear ""