Nuclear power, at least the fission kind will not overcome negative public perception enough for us to move in that direction in any meaningful way. No matter the statistical safety, the accidents, (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima)where powerful examples of how badly things can go wrong when they do go wrong. This, plus the problem of nuclear waste assures nuclear power is going nowhere fast. 

I agree that it is not wholly rational to base ones fears on these events when they are statistically insignificant. But we have a president and a whole lot of his followers that are so afraid of terrorism that they are willing to build walls, refuse to let refugees and people from primarily Muslim countries into the country, and are just fine with submitting Americans traveling abroad to facial recognition captures, even though the odds of being killed by a refugee or an undocumented immigrant are lower than winning the Powerball twice.