Exploring public perceptions of benefits and risks, trust, and acceptance of nuclear energy in Thailand and Vietnam: A qualitative approach

Ho, Shirley S.; Oshita, Tsuyoshi; Looi, Jiemin; Leong, Alisius D.; Chuah, Agnes S. F.

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“…In the UK, although the general public perceive nuclear energy as risky, many of them accept the technology conditionally as a way to mitigate climate change (Pidgeon, Henwood, Parkhill, Venables, & Simmons, 2008), and public opinion remains rather consistent even after the Fukushima nuclear incident (Jones, Elgueta, & Eiser, 2016). On the other hand, the public in countries such as Thailand and Vietnam do not think that their countries are ready for nuclear energy, in part, due to misconceptions of how nuclear energy facilities can be easily weaponized (Ho, Oshita, Looi, Leong, & Chuah, 2019).…”

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Environmental Debates over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public

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Environmental Communication

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Environmental debates over nuclear energy often center around two polarized sets of argumentsthe potential benefits of nuclear energy as a clean way of producing energy, helping to mitigate climate change and the concerns over the possibility of ionizing radiation release and nuclear waste contamination of the environment. As a form of clean energy, the environmental benefits of nuclear energy can be attributed to its low carbon emission (International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], 2014;Lovelock, 2004;Monbiot, 2009). On the other hand, previous nuclear accidents have triggered concerns about the possibility of ionizing radiation leaks and nuclear waste contamination to the environment (IAEA, 2014). The debates over nuclear energy are further compounded by arguments over other potential benefits of nuclear energy such as reliable energy production, economic competitiveness and stable electricity prices, and the potential adverse effects of nuclear energy such as the possible proliferation of nuclear weapons and the high upfront costs of nuclear power plants (IAEA, 2014). In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear incident in Japan, many nations such as Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland decided to phase out nuclear power, but nations such as China, India, Finland, the UK, and the US are planning or already building new nuclear energy plants Li et al., 2016). For example, analysis of news media coverage in the aftermath of these nuclear accidents showed that the low carbon emission benefit of nuclear energy in mitigating climate change was greatly deemphasized in the media, while the potential threat of ionizing radiation from nuclear power plants to human health and the environment were given the heavy spotlight (Friedman, 2011;Kristiansen, 2017). These eventdriven studies collectively point to how a nuclear energy accident triggers the mass media to devote heavy attention to nuclear energy and its detrimental potential.A large body of research has also looked at the general public as a key stakeholder, analyzing how various social, psychological, and demographic factors shape public perceptions of nuclear energy. Generally, these studies, mostly based in North America and Europe, have shown that key factors including benefit perceptions

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“…Nuclear energy has many economic benefits. First, countries will be able to produce their own energy thanks to nuclear energy [32,33]. As a result, energy will not be imported, and the current account deficit problem will be minimized [34,35].…”

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“…Step 7: Impact-relation map of criteria is constructed. By the equation (32), the averaged value of total relation matrix is defined as threshold and higher values than the threshold shows that there is an influence among the criteria. Accordingly, the directions among the criteria are given in Figure 4.…”

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Consensus-Based Public Acceptance and Mapping of Nuclear Energy Investments Using Spherical and Pythagorean Fuzzy Group Decision Making Approaches

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“…They also yield a wider array of arguments and data than can be obtained in a one-on-one interview which made them useful for gathering large amounts of data in a relatively short time frame (Gailing & Naumann, 2018). The approach has been criticized for its subjectivity and for lacking standardized procedures for the evaluation of data; nonetheless, it has been employed in a wide variety of social science research, including energy policy (Berdahl, Bourassa, Bell, & Fried, 2016;Gailing & Naumann, 2018;Ho, Oshita, Looi, Leong, & Chuah, 2019;Mesarić, Dukec, & Krajcar, 2017;Silk, Hurley, Pace, Maloney, & Lapinski, 2014;Soland, Loosli, Koch, & Christ, 2017).…”

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Community Energy Preferences and Residential Occupant Behaviour of the MoCreebec Eeyoud

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Exploring public perceptions of benefits and risks, trust, and acceptance of nuclear energy in Thailand and Vietnam: A qualitative approach

Cited by 51 publications

References 54 publications

Environmental Debates over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public

Environmental Debates over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public

Consensus-Based Public Acceptance and Mapping of Nuclear Energy Investments Using Spherical and Pythagorean Fuzzy Group Decision Making Approaches

Community Energy Preferences and Residential Occupant Behaviour of the MoCreebec Eeyoud

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