Society has a tendency to care more about prominent isolated incidents than about the “truth”. Incidents like Chernobyl, three mile island, Fukushima, etc have

Society has a tendency to care more about prominent isolated incidents than about the “truth”. Incidents like Chernobyl, three mile island, Fukushima, etc have been talked about a lot more in news and social media than the overall statistics of safety. And since that’s what people are exposed to, their perception is based on that rather than statistics.