> There's been a concerted campaign against nuclear energy since its conception

The problem of acceptance that nuclear power has is home-made.

It started with introducing the broad public to "The Power of the Atom" by wiping out tens of thousands of people in an instant (or rather two). Sure, cheers were great at that time because it meant that thousands of young men would not be gunned down on Japanese beaches while trying to land there. A year later already, regrets set in, also because Japan had basically been willing to end the war even before these events.

Then: nuclear tests, inadvertently irradiating fishermen in one incident. Opposing public concerns instead of trying to find solutions together - sure it was a time when obedience to authority was widespread and it might have seemed like a viable way to deal with the protests.

You only have to read the history of the anti-nuclear movement to see that nuclear "public relations activities" (let's just call it that) were one screw-up after the other and that the movement was a natural reaction to that.