Yes it does have to do with gas plants. Anything nuclear that kills people WILL come back to the industry as more regulations and more money if it is an actual nuclear issue. Gas explodes BECAUSE it is gas and it is flammable/explosive. Nuclear plants explode or meltdown because they lose cooling or have a reactivity excursion. But since you mention it, most nuclear executives I've talked to say anything that happens in a nuclear plant to the negative has a greater effect since it happens in a nuclear plant...if the same thing happened at a gas plant or other plant....no big deal. I believe them. People come from other industries to work in nuclear and usually comment on how much more the safety regs are enforced. Why do you think that is? If nuclear plants were killing birds due to a radiation issue, what would happen to said nuclear plant? But windmills can do it all dam day...no prob. Think about it. Fukushima didn't kill anybody with radiation as far as I can tell, yet it may have set back the nuclear industry at least a decade and cost 100s of millions of dollars or more to refit with Fuku mods. I could go on and on.
Do you really think that if a truck spilled nuclear waste on an national hwy they would care whether it was nuclear waste from bomb making or from a nuclear plant. Nope. the regs would change for everyone, including nuke plants most likely ($$$$$). Is it fair that chemical plants could blow up way easier than a nuke plant but have much less security ($$$$$)? Nope. How many examples do you need?