Nuclear power: why is it so unpopular?

by Panzer
Nuclear technology doesn’t get great publicity
In blockbuster films it creates terrifying monsters…
…such as Godzilla and the Hulk
It’s characterised by incompetence…
…in cult TV shows like “The Simpsons”…
We’re doomed
…and hit HBO series “Chernobyl”
What did you do?
I did what you said, I switched…
Look at it!
And it’s normally in the news…
…because something has gone wrong
It’s an atomic fire…
…and the Soviets can’t contain it
The third explosion at the Fukushima power plant…
…Japanese prime minister says…
…radioactive levels around the plant are high
But…
…nuclear energy is safe, reasonably reliable…
…and efficient
Without it, it’ll be much harder to fight climate change
So why does nuclear power still only make up 10%…
…of global electricity generation?
The natural power of the universe…
…is harnessed in the new atomic bomb
Its tremendous possibilities are explaining…
In 1945, nuclear’s full, unimaginable power…
…was demonstrated to the world
Eight years later…
…President Eisenhower proposed using nuclear energy…
…as a way to redeem humankind…
…for having brought such an awful technology into existence
The United States knows…
…that peaceful power from atomic energy…
…is no dream of the future
That capability already proved is here, now, today
When the nuclear reactors first open…
…there’s a big futuristic buzz about them
This is when jet planes are new…