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'Nej tak' to nuclear after all - 0 views

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    Danes don't support the use of nuclear power despite a poll indicating a majority is in favour A new study on attitudes towards nuclear power counterclaims one published two weeks ago, which demonstrated a majority support the use of the energy source, reports trade publication Ingeniøren. Two weeks ago, a Gallup/Berlingske Tidende newspaper poll claimed a majority of people supported the use of nuclear power. The new A&B Analyse poll, conducted for political news website Altinget.dk, shows there is considerable resistance to atomic energy.
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    Danes don't support the use of nuclear power despite a poll indicating a majority is in favour A new study on attitudes towards nuclear power counterclaims one published two weeks ago, which demonstrated a majority support the use of the energy source, reports trade publication Ingeniøren. Two weeks ago, a Gallup/Berlingske Tidende newspaper poll claimed a majority of people supported the use of nuclear power. The new A&B Analyse poll, conducted for political news website Altinget.dk, shows there is considerable resistance to atomic energy.
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Survey: Americans split over nuclear energy | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | ... - 0 views

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    A national poll of 800 residents conducted by the Polling Institute at Sacred Heart University found a pretty even split between those who think nuclear energy is very safe or somewhat safe (46.1 percent) and those who think it's very dangerous or somewhat dangerous (44.7 percent).. According to info distributed to the news media, Sacred Heart (based in Fairfield, Conn.) institute's poll found that a majority see nuclear waste as a danger, while they viewed wind as being the safest energy source. Also, about a third of the respondents thought that an increase in nuclear energy would lead to more nuclear weapons. Most of the polled indivdiuals supported the EPA's designation of CO2 as a public health threat. In a statement, Dr. Josh Klein, assistant professor in Sacred Heart's Department of Criminal Justice, said, "Americans are split about whether nuclear power is safe or not, and many people have specific security concerns about nuclear power. The two dangers that concern a majority of Americans are the problems with radioactive waste storage, a top criticism of nuclear power, and possible plant meltdowns.''
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TMI poll: 20 more years - The York Daily Record - 0 views

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    A Three Mile Island-commissioned public-opinion poll that favors the continued operation of the plant will not influence a pending federal decision to renew the site's operating license for 20 more years. "The poll means nothing to (the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)," NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said. "We don't base our decisions on polls that are put out by companies that operate plants."
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VPR News: Poll Says Public Has Lost Trust In Yankee - 0 views

  • He said 71 percent of state residents say they are - quote - "less supportive now of Vermont Yankee, the nuclear reactor, than [they] were six months ago."
  • He said 71 percent of state residents say they are - quote - "less supportive now of Vermont Yankee, the nuclear reactor, than [they] were six months ago."
  • He said 71 percent of state residents say they are - quote - "less supportive now of Vermont Yankee, the nuclear reactor, than [they] were six months ago."
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    "A new poll shows Entergy Vermont Yankee has lost the trust of a majority of Vermonters. The poll says a radiation leak at the plant has severely eroded public support for the plant to operate after 2012. VPR's John Dillon reports: (Dillon) The poll of 802 Vermont residents was commissioned by the Civil Society Institute, a Massachusetts-based non profit that says it opposes nuclear power. The survey was taken just days before the Senate voted overwhelmingly to block Entergy Vermont Yankee's request for a 20-year license extension. "
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Poll: Carolinians favor conservation over power plants - Charlotte Business Journal: - 0 views

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    A growing number of Carolinians say rising demand for electricity can be met through conservation rather than by building more power plants. That's a key finding of a new poll commissioned by Duke Energy Carolinas. And it reflects a distinct shift in public opinion from two years ago. In the latest poll, 43% of the 1,100 N.C. and S.C. residents surveyed say "people and companies will learn to conserve energy and use significantly less electricity." Only 30% say "government will give permission for more power plants to be built."
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    A growing number of Carolinians say rising demand for electricity can be met through conservation rather than by building more power plants. That's a key finding of a new poll commissioned by Duke Energy Carolinas. And it reflects a distinct shift in public opinion from two years ago. In the latest poll, 43% of the 1,100 N.C. and S.C. residents surveyed say "people and companies will learn to conserve energy and use significantly less electricity." Only 30% say "government will give permission for more power plants to be built."
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Britain should rethink nuclear weapons policy - poll | Reuters - 0 views

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    "Nearly three-quarters of opinion formers in Britain think the government should either scrap the country's nuclear weapons or look for a cheaper alternative, according to a poll published on Tuesday. Just under a third of business leaders, politicians, academics and journalists polled by YouGov for the Chatham House think tank said Britain should abandon its nuclear deterrent after it expires in 2024. This is higher than a fifth of ordinary voters polled by YouGov who want to scrap it. The replacement of Britain's submarine-launched Trident missile system is expected to cost at least 20 billion pounds, a sum critics say is unthinkable at a time of drastic spending cuts pushed by Prime Minister David Cameron."
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NewsRoom Finland: Half of Finnish public against more nuclear powe - 0 views

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    The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) on Sunday quoted a Taloustutkimus poll as indicating that about 48 per cent of the public objected to constructing further nuclear power stations, with some 37 per cent of those polled in favour of new nuclear generating capacity. The latter figure is slightly higher than that returned by a similar poll carried out last spring. About 15 per cent of the respondents said they had no opinion on the issue.
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Majority in Taiwan favors replacing nuke power with renewables - The China Post - 0 views

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    Nearly 70 percent of the population favors the notion of replacing nuclear power with renewable energy, while 50 percent think nuclear power should be maintained as an option, according to the results of a poll released Monday. However, Taiwan Power Company, the sole supplier of electricity in Taiwan, said that renewable energy may not be a realistic path as the average consumer would complain about its much higher price. In a telephone poll conducted by Shih Hsin University on randomly chosen citizens over the age of 20, it was found that 49.1 percent support nuclear power as one of the energy production options, while 69.9 percent favor replacing nuclear power with renewable and clean energy.
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    Nearly 70 percent of the population favors the notion of replacing nuclear power with renewable energy, while 50 percent think nuclear power should be maintained as an option, according to the results of a poll released Monday. However, Taiwan Power Company, the sole supplier of electricity in Taiwan, said that renewable energy may not be a realistic path as the average consumer would complain about its much higher price. In a telephone poll conducted by Shih Hsin University on randomly chosen citizens over the age of 20, it was found that 49.1 percent support nuclear power as one of the energy production options, while 69.9 percent favor replacing nuclear power with renewable and clean energy.
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Helsingin Sanomat - Poll: Support for new nuclear reactor declines - 0 views

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    Nine out of ten want more wind energy "Public support for building a sixth nuclear generating facility for Finland has sharply declined in the past four years. Nevertheless, a poll commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat and conducted by Suomen Gallup indicates that more than half of Finns are still in favour of more nuclear construction. Only about a third of respondents would grant licences to all three applicants, while six per cent would grant licences to two of the applicant companies. "
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Scots favour wind farms over nuclear power, says survey - Scotsman.com News - 0 views

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    "SCOTS are more in favour of using wind farms than nuclear power stations to produce electricity, a poll commissioned by EDF Energy has shown. * 69% of people polled were in favour of onshore turbines. Picture: Getty When asked in a YouGov survey about their support for different types of power plants, more than eight out of ten Scots backed offshore wind farms and 69 per cent were in favour of onshore turbines. However, fewer than half - 47 per cent - said they supported the idea of replacing existing nuclear plants when they closed in the poll, commissioned by the French nuclear power giant. Similarly, when questioned about their opinion of different energy sources for producing electricity, 74 per cent said their impression of wind farms was favourable, compared to just 43 per cent for nuclear."
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National Poll: Americans Split on Safety of Nuclear Energy - 0 views

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    - Most Support EPA Designation of Carbon Dioxide as Public Health Threat - Majorities See Danger in Nuclear Waste - Wind Energy Perceived as Safest - One-Third See More Nuclear Weapons as Plants Increase Fairfield, Connecticut - A new national poll of 800 residents by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute found a nearly even split between those suggesting nuclear energy was very or somewhat safe (46.1%) and those who said somewhat dangerous or very dangerous (44.7%).
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Questions for TMI's renewal - PennLive.com - 0 views

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    TMI-Alert Inc. sharply disagrees with the results of a recent poll paid for and released by Exelon on the relicensing of Three Mile Island. At issue are the questions that were not asked. The poll also failed to note that a majority of the folks who actually testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were against extending the license of TMI-1.
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The Associated Press: Pro- or anti-nuke? Depends how you ask - 0 views

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    Americans' support for nuclear power skidded in polling after the Three Mile Island accident 30 years ago and slipped more after the Chernobyl disaster seven years later. In more recent years, nuclear power has regained popularity, but the level of support depends greatly on survey question wording. In more than 40 surveys from 1977 through 1990, Cambridge Reports National asked Americans about building more nuclear power plants as a way of "dealing with the energy crisis" and found a high of 58 percent favored it in the first poll.
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4 out of 5 want nuclear reactors scrapped in Japan - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    "Tokyo, June 19 (ANI): Four out of five Japanese want the nation's 54 nuclear reactors to be decommissioned either immediately or gradually following the crisis that evolved after the earth-quake-cum-tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on March 11, a poll has revealed. The Kyodo news agency quoted the Tokyo Shimbun daily poll as saying that only 14 percent respondents said that the reactors should continue operations, while 82 percent said that they should be decommissioned. A total of 54 percent of respondents said that the reactors should be decommissioned "while taking into account the power supply-and-demand situation," followed by 19 percent who want decommissioning to "start with ones undergoing periodic checks". Besides, nine percent demanded immediate scrapping of the nuclear plants, showing an absolute lack of confidence in the nation's atomic energy policy. (ANI)"
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Nuclear power still risky, expensive -- baltimoresun.com - 0 views

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    I was dismayed to see Walt Handelsman's editorial cartoon (July 14) that implied that citizen activists now embrace nuclear power. The truth is that Americans want better energy options. Poll after poll shows that citizens are concerned about global warming pollution and the health impacts of smog and soot from coal-fired power plants.
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Russians support more nuclear -- poll - UPI.com - 0 views

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    MOSCOW, April 29 (UPI) -- A Russian survey suggests 41 percent of citizens support nuclear power. Nearly half of all Russians think there will be no alternative to nuclear energy if Russia eventually runs out of crude oil and natural gas, the survey results suggest. Eighteen percent favor the use of hydropower and 10 percent suggest coal, according to the Levada Center poll, the Daily News Bulletin reported.
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Gallup poll finds 59% support US nuclear power, a 'new high' - 0 views

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    "New high levels of support for nuclear power" in the US were found in a Gallup Environment Poll released Friday. In a telephone survey of 1,012 adults conducted March 5-8, 59% of respondents said they "favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity for the US," and 27% "strongly favor it." Gallup said "a majority of Americans, 56%, believe nuclear power plants are safe, but a substantial minority of 42% disagree."
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Most Chileans Oppose Nuclear Energy: Angus Reid Global Monitor - 0 views

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    The majority of Chileans are not keen on developing nuclear energy but a significant proportion is, according to a poll by Ipsos. 52.5 per cent of respondents disagree with building nuclear power plants on Chilean soil, while 40.4 per cent agree. Michelle Bachelet-a former defence minister-was elected in a January 2006 run-off as the candidate for the centre-left Agreement of Parties for Democracy (CPD) with 53.49 per cent of all cast ballots. She officially took over as president in March 2006. In April 2008, a group of 23 environmental organizations withdrew its unconditional support for Bachelet's government, saying the president broke a pact signed in 2005 which included a pledge to never consider developing nuclear energy in Chile.
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Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran: poll | International | Reuters - 0 views

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    Only one in five Israeli Jews believes a nuclear-armed Iran would try to destroy Israel and most see life continuing as normal should their arch-foe get the bomb, an opinion poll published on Sunday found. The survey, commissioned by a Tel Aviv University think tank, appeared to challenge the argument of successive Israeli governments that Iran must be denied the means to make atomic weapons lest it threaten the existence of the Jewish state.
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Poll: Radioactive waste not welcome here - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    "Utahns strongly support a federal ban on importing radioactive waste from foreign nations. And, even more strongly, they oppose the disposal of thousands of tons of depleted uranium in their state. Whether they were Republicans or Democrats, men or women, members of the LDS church or not - the majority of registered voters who responded to a recent poll conducted for The Salt Lake Tribune objected to low-level radioactive waste coming to the state. The question made Grantsville resident Anne Watson recall the story of scientist Marie Curie, who died from exposure to the radioactive material she studied. "
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