Another explanation offered by Schelling is that nuclear is generically different, basically ickier than other explosives. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz

Another explanation offered by Schelling is that nuclear is generically different, basically ickier than other explosives. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/schelling-lecture.pdf http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau... Fukushima is kind of reinforcing that sense of ickiness to the long-term detriment of nuclear as an alternative energy source, which is unfortunate because to me at least it appears to be the most viable.