Nuclear knowledge and nuclear attitudes: is ignorance bliss

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:5948916

Nealey, S M; Rankin, W L

This executive summary highlights the major findings of a nuclear power mail-out survey administered to a random sample of Washington State residents, a random sample of residents (nuclear neighbors) from the region around the Hanford Reservation, and a random sample of members of a Washington State environmental interest group. The purpose of the research was threefold. The first was to determine from what sources people have received their information about nuclear power, from what sources they would like to receive additional information, and what kinds of additional information they would like to receive. A second purpose was to determine how much respondents already knew about nuclear power and nuclear waste disposal. The third purpose was to determine how one's knowledge about nuclear power was related to one's attitude about building more nuclear power plants. The findings are presented in summary form.

• Research Organization: Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5948916
• Report Number(s): PNL-2906
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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