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The aversion to nuclear power here in europe is mostly the cultural scars that chernobyl had on Europe along with various different instances of massive polluting by major companies and nobody believing any for-profit company could be trustworthy enough to manage it safely.
It can't be understated how significant Chernobyl was on european mindsets about nuclear power. That shit legitimately did nearly destroy europe and people's attitudes to nuclear power were very heavily affected by it. Those attitudes then passed on.
Absolutely true. There were so many stories about chernobyl and zaporozhye during the russian war as well, about how the russians were bombing the nuclear power plant, the workers there facing difficulty, assessing by some world nuclear assessment organisation or whatever being impeded, the soil around chernobyl being disturbed and russian soldiers dying because they are careless with radioactive stuff etc. on and on and on and on