Although nuclear power ranks as a “clean” source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war, which emerged from Japan’s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic association with mass destruction and death. Moreover, the secrecy that attends all things “nuclear” has left people not knowing enough to feel confident.
有两个主要原因造成这种恐惧。虽然核电被列为“清洁”能源，但却始终无法摆脱核战争的可怕阴影，这种阴影的源头可以追溯到65年前日本广岛和长崎上次面对核灾难的经历，那次经历让人们自然而然地将核与大规模毁灭死亡联系在一起。此外，“核”问题的神秘感让人们无法了解足够的信息，因此自信心也很难建立。