It's easy to look back and tut tut over how stupid everyone was, but think about it. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were caused by a mix of lax maintenance and

It's easy to look back and tut tut over how stupid everyone was, but think about it. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were caused by a mix of lax maintenance and operator error. Normally, that only kills a few (or a few dozen) people at once in a small area. But occasionally we see widespread negative effect at things like chemical plants and oil tankers/rigs. The human factors are always the same, because humans are more or less the same across time in space. Why should nuclear be any different? It's entirely possible that there is some technology so dangerous that we simply can't be trusted to manage it correctly, i.e. the expected loss is very large even if the probability of loss is very low. To be clear, I am not arguing that this is so. But I would encourage some level of empathy for people who are opposed to nuclear on these grounds.