Nuclear Power: Public Opinion
(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
What recent assessment he has made of public attitudes towards nuclear energy.
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy tests public attitudes towards nuclear energy, and a wide range of other BEIS issues, through our Public Attitude Tracker.
Questions on nuclear energy were asked in Wave 29, in March 2019.
This demonstrated that 35% of the public supported nuclear energy, 23% opposed nuclear energy and 38% neither supported nor opposed nuclear energy.