Differentiated influences of risk perceptions on nuclear power acceptance according to acceptance targets: Evidence from Korea

作者：Roh, Seungkook; Lee, Jin Won^*

来源：Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2017, 49(5): 1090-1094.

DOI：10.1016/j.net.2017.04.005

• Acceptance Targets
• Nuclear Power Acceptance
• Psychological Distance
• Public Communication
• Risk Perceptions

The determinants of the public's nuclear power acceptance have received considerable attention as decisive factors regarding nuclear power policy. However, the contingency of the relative importance of different determinants has been less explored. Building on the literature of psychological distance between the individual and the object, the present study demonstrates that the relative effects of different types of perceived risks regarding nuclear power generation differ across acceptance targets. Using a sample of Korea, our results show that, regarding national acceptance of nuclear power generation, perceived risk from nuclear power plants exerts a stronger negative effect than that from radioactive waste management; however, the latter exerts a stronger negative effect than the former on local acceptance of a nuclear power plant. This finding provides implications for efficient public communication strategy to raise nuclear power acceptance.

• 出版日期2017-8
• 单位厦门大学