The first reactions to Fukushima on HN and the downvotes of your inconvenient comment show the massive pro-nuclear bias of many users here.
The ideology is that science and technology can cure humanity of all its problems, if only they were not so small-minded and ignorant to reject it.
There's also a strong identification between science and technology and their proponents' core identities, so that fundamental questioning of some of their benefits is seen as personally threatening.