Quote Originally Posted by Soirana View Post
The thing is chemical hazards can be dreadful, but they are short period and can be often sorted, nuclear ones give very long term problems.
This is very true, and the big problem with nuclear fission. It's not generally what people worry about - they care more about invisible gamma rays giving them cancer. My point in general is that people are somehow less afraid of something they can see. The idea of some ghost-like killer scares them far more, leading to an extremely negative stigmatism around anything labeled "nuclear".