Voters are usually biased and shaped by what they see on TV. If TV shows a disaster in a nuclear plant that can lead to X, they will just connect "nuclear plan

Voters are usually biased and shaped by what they see on TV. If TV shows a disaster in a nuclear plant that can lead to X, they will just connect "nuclear plants are dangerous". Plus, there is still the unresolved issue about the nuclear waste which is another reason for concern/fear. I wouldn't dismiss the reasons to be concerned - it's just that they did a campaign based on fear, and this type of thing typically doesn't lead to good solutions. So you go and vote but with a heavy bias in your heart: are you going to be responsible for destroying "the world"? Nobody wants to be that guy. TV should have done a better job at informing people, so that ideally they could have made up their mind on their own, considering a variety of scenarios and not just one: a nuclear plant explosion. It's also true that Germany and other countries (like Italy) were affected when Chernobyl happened - I do remember of people saying that it wasn't safe back then to eat some products because of the radioactivity levels. People don't want that again. And all TV did was (I guess?) reminding them how it was just 10-20 years before. When Fukushima happened it brought all back in an instant.