Acceptable Level of Acceptance and the Affecting Factors: What Is the Acceptable Public Acceptance of Building a Nuclear Power Plant

Table 2

A country’s public acceptance level for nuclear power plants.

Countries	The public acceptance level of nuclear power plants from various reference sources (%)
	IPSOS [6]	Wang and Kim [3]	Win-Gallup international [4]	World nuclear association [5]	Other sources
(1) Argentina	28.00	—	—	—	—
(2) Belarus	—	—	—	28.30 (2005); 53.50 (2012)	Grusha et al. [25]: 65.10
(3) Belgium	40.00	12.00	—	80.00 (2017); 83.00 (2019)	—
(4) Brazil	31.00	—	—	—	—
(5) Bulgaria	—	33.00	68.00; 62.00	—	—
(6) Canada	37.00	—	—	—	—
(7) China	42.00	—	—	—	—
(8) Czech Republic	—	26.50	63.00; 61.00	—	—
(9) Finland	24.00	24.00	—	28.00 (2001); 32.00 (2004); 18.00 (2007) 18.00 (2010); 25.00 (2013); 26.00 (2016)	Murakami and Anbumozhi [2]: 33.00 (2010); 51.00 (2012); 41.00 (2014)
(10) France	33.00	12.80	66.00; 58.00	77.00 (1998); 74.00 (2005); 48.00 (2011) 16.00 (2012); 72.00 (2014)	—
(11) Germany	—	7.70	34.00; 26.00	—	—
(12) Hungary	41.00	27.80	—	—	—
(13) India	61.00	—	—	—	—
(14) Japan	42.00	—	—	—	Murakami and Anbumozhi [2]: 20.40 (2010); 10.00 (2011); 13.90 (2012); 18.90 (2013)
(15) Mexico	19.00	—	—	—	—
(16) Netherland	—	28.40	51.00; 44.00	—	—
(17) Romania	—	26.20	—	—	—
(18) Russia	38.00	—	—	—	—
(19) Slovakia	—	24.30	—	—	—
(20) Slovenia	—	15.70	—	—	—
(21) South Africa	40.00	—	—	—	—
(22) Spain	40.00	9.70	39.00; 41.00	—	—
(23) Sweden	49.00	28.70	—	27.00 (2004); 33.00 (2011); 35.00 (2019)	—
(24) Switzerland	—	—	40.00; 47.00	—	—
(25) South Korea	39.00	—	—	—	—
(26) United Arab Emirate	42.00	—	—	68.00 (2013); 79.00 (2017)	—
(27) United Kingdoms	49.00	29.90	—	23.00 (2019)	—
(28) United States	52.00	—	—	—	—