It's not just a pro-nuclear bias. It's techno-utopianism and scientism. The ideology is that science and technology can cure humanity of all its problems, if

It's not just a pro-nuclear bias. It's techno-utopianism and scientism. The ideology is that science and technology can cure humanity of all its problems, if only they were not so small-minded and ignorant to reject it. There's also a strong identification between science and technology and their proponents' core identities, so that fundamental questioning of some of their benefits is seen as personally threatening.