It didn't because humans are not rational and bad press is highly overblown. Mostly because of link to weapons of mass destruction I suppose.

Nobody says anything about the health and ecological disaster that is coal and oil. People do not attribute mining deaths to it and are bad at linking long term chronic health effects to them.

A red herring of solar and wind is proposed that people haven't rejected due to outages thanks to the other technologies covering its major drawbacks.

Likewise hydro disasters are not covered as much as they should.