The generation that had a great fear of nuclear bombs due to duck and cover exercises in schools when they were kids started coming into political power (the bo

The generation that had a great fear of nuclear bombs due to duck and cover exercises in schools when they were kids started coming into political power (the boomers) and have been in power ever since. Most people don't really separate the idea of a mushroom cloud going up into the sky and a nuclear reactor meltdown in their head. The nuclear power industry should have taken a clue from all of the other industries that use nuclear/radioactive tech and removed the word nuclear from the technology description. Maybe call it isotopic power? Hopefully younger generations, that seem to be completely unaware that we still live 15 minutes to nuclear armageddon, won't have such a visceral negative view of it and see it as a viable zero carbon energy source.