The study of public acceptance of nuclear power in China with quantitative model

2015 ◽  
pp. 387-394
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Public Acceptance

scholarly journals Extending the Coverage of the Trust–Acceptability Model: The Negative Effect of Trust in Government on Nuclear Power Acceptance in South Korea under a Nuclear Phase-Out Policy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3343
Author(s):  
Seungkook Roh ◽  
Hae-Gyung Geong
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Nuclear Phase ◽  
Phase Out

This article extends the coverage of the trust–acceptability model to a new situation of nuclear phase-out by investigating the effect of trust on the public acceptance of nuclear power, with South Korea as the research setting. Through the structural equation modeling of a nationwide survey dataset from South Korea, we examined the effects of the public’s trust in the various actors related to nuclear power on their perceptions of the benefits and risks of nuclear power and their acceptance of nuclear power. Contrary to previous studies’ findings, in South Korea, under a nuclear phase-out policy by the government, trust in government revealed a negative impact on the public acceptance of nuclear power. Trust in environmental non-governmental groups also showed a negative effect on nuclear power acceptance. In contrast, trust in nuclear energy authority and trust in nuclear academia both had positive effects. In all cases, the effect of a trust variable on nuclear power acceptance was at least partially accounted for by the trust’s indirect effects through benefit perception and risk perception. These findings strengthen the external validity of the trust–acceptability model and provide implications for both researchers and practitioners.

Study on public acceptance of nuclear power plants: Evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Zhu ◽  
Shanshan Lu ◽  
Zhibin Huang ◽  
Jing Zeng ◽  
Jiuchang Wei
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Public Acceptance

Public acceptance ol nuclear power declining

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES H. KRIEGER
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Public Acceptance

Service Information Database for Consumer Acceptance

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Iino ◽  
Masayuki Nakao ◽  
Tsukasa Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Nuclear Power Generation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Company ◽  
Service Information ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
Poor Management

Hardly any engineering product is free of trouble and it has to go through service work, corrective or preventive. Fixing a mechanical pencil with a jammed lead is relatively an easy task for a mechanical engineer, whereas maintaining a power plant requires thorough planning, material handling, work order processing, and huge workforce. Naturally service work for large structures require a well designed database. The authors have shown [1] the importance of feeding service information back to the designer for authorization so the serviceperson will not “invent” maintenance work that may lead to product failure. This paper further suggests opening the whole service process to the public. The idea is especially valuable for some industries that need public acceptance, e.g., nuclear power generation. Nuclear power generation is often a subject of debate for public acceptance. This paper discusses two incidents of cover-ups by utility companies that caused large setback in their public acceptance, one case of overreaction triggered by the media showing dramatic accident scenes without explaining what was going wrong, and an example of poor management that cost a utility company its credence with the public. Up to the time of these incidents utility companies, out of the mindset of “Public do not understand our highly technical operation so telling them what is going on just creates confusion,” tended not to fully explain events that may have affected the public. Thanks to the way information flows around the world these days, even though we may not follow the “techy” words, there are those that understand the phenomena and are good at rephrasing the information so we can easily understand them. The utility company in the poor management case, Chugoku Electric Power Company (ENERGIA), in its efforts to recover the public trust, started a new service information system on the web that opens information about troubles and nonconformance in their plants to the public. This paper explains this new system that is currently in operation. It is a total change in the way a utility company interacts with the public. The courageous step by ENERGIA raises the public knowledge and awareness of nuclear power generation and assures security and safety to the society. The INTERNET is making it harder for companies, administration, educational institutions or any other entities to operate without public acceptance. Opening information is a way we all have to get used to in the coming years.

scholarly journals The Study on Safety Goals and Public Acceptance of Nuclear Power

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 415-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Chao-jun ◽  
Zhang Chun-ming ◽  
Chen Yan ◽  
Zuo Jia-xu ◽  
Chen Jia-yun
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Public Acceptance
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