Why is there so much more attention towards nuclear dangers than towards chemical pollution?
Chemicals are so much a part of the modern technological society. They in some ways make life easier and even in some cases safer, but we dont readily want to acknowledge possible short term or long term effects. Chemicals are seen as an essential part of life. Nuclear energy is seen as an option, not so much a danger in the USA. Nuclear danger is however immediate and drastic. We have seen film clips of the explosion of the atom bomb. We have seen and heard of Chernobyl. Such drastic images more clearly evoke feelings of fear.
