Edit: I do mean nuclear science, not just nuclear power.
Or GMO's, or vaccines (for a subset of those folks).
Is the hatred of nuclear really so irrational? It's an expensive way of generating electricity which has frequent safety issues and gives the state the means to build nuclear weapons.
...with a track record of concealing problems by supposedly neutral and trustworthy experts.
Perhaps... the left has its anti-science bugaboos as well though.