Public Risk Perception of Nuclear Power in Serbia: Fear of Exposure to Radiation vs. Social Benefits
semanticscholar(2020)
Abstract
Nuclear power (NP)
remains one of the choices for increasing environmental and social concerns
related to energy needs due to its relatively low level of emissions. At the
other hand, serious problems can arise as a result of potential accidents. For
example, the nuclear power plant (NPP) crisis in Fukushima Daichi (2011) has
caused a great deal of concern not only for the Japanese people, but also for
the world. Today, the consequences of this occasion continue in EU countries.
However, Serbia does not have an NP plant on its own, it has about 15 NP
stations around it. The Serbian Government, therefore, wanted to know what the majority of its people think about nuclear energy (NE) and possible consistency. The
objective of this paper is to present the results of the Serbian population
assessment of the NP risk perception of the trial. A series of 270 face-to-face
interviews took place in the public square of Belgrade in March 2019. A
logistic regression analysis was used to examine the cumulative effects of the
different risk factors. As a key result, it was found that almost all
respondents did not support the construction of the NP in Serbia. In addition,
this research identified several important variables that have a significant
impact on the perception of the public risk of NP.
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