Those are vocal minorities, not majority. Solar and wind didn’t have several nuclear catastrophes to shift most public opinion into the gutter. Plants were poorly managed, cut corners, and ignored obvious warnings that could have prevented disaster. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/22-011-nuclear-engineering-science-systems-and-society-spring-2020/dfc5cc5e7a23d03bc1674e9423eeaece_MIT22_011S20_NuclearEnergy.pdf

Here’s a link to an opinion piece on the matter, compiled with some sources. Nuclear is a viable option and focus on nuclear waste is shortsighted. Fossil fuels already produce waste in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and it’s doing more damage to the planet than a comparablely tiny amount of nuclear waste.