Study finds public support for nuclear energy in Southeast Asia generally low

Nuclear vigor whitethorn beryllium the world's second-largest debased c vigor root for generating energy aft hydroelectric power, but reception to its adoption remains lukewarm successful Southeast Asia, an NTU Singapore survey has found.

Conducted by NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, the survey surveyed 1,000 radical each successful Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand done door-to-door questionnaires and recovered that much than fractional of the respondents successful each state were against the thought of nuclear vigor development.

Based connected its surveys, the survey recovered that astir 1 successful 5 (22 percent) of those surveyed successful Singapore were successful favour of atomic vigor development. The level of public support successful the different 4 countries surveyed ranged from 3 percent to 39 percent.

The NTU scientists besides recovered that the respondents tended to usage "cognitive shortcuts" specified arsenic hazard and payment cognition (an individual's content successful the menace oregon benefits of atomic energy), spiritual beliefs, and spot successful assorted entities specified arsenic assemblage scientists, concern leaders, and the authorities to assistance their determination connected their level of enactment for atomic energy development.

With the 5 countries surveyed successful this NTU survey geographically adjacent to each other, having a atomic powerfulness works successful immoderate of the 5 Southeast Asian countries volition interaction the others, said Prof. Shirley Ho, who led the study.

Prof. Ho, who is NTU's Research Director for Arts, Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, added that the findings are a cardinal constituent for information for policymakers successful these countries, fixed that information suggests the nationalist is collectively unsupportive of having a atomic powerfulness works successful their ain country.

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