Date published: 2008/09/30
The BBC says:
Residents living near existing nuclear reactors only have "qualified support" for new power stations, a study shows.
While most locals trusted the operators of their nearby power station, some had a strong distrust of the UK Government and the nuclear industry, it added.
The team that compiled the data said the findings suggested that a "decide and defend" strategy for new build would be be met by strong opposition.
It had been assumed that locals would support new nuclear power stations.
The five-year study, which included a survey of 1,326 households, was carried out by the team of researchers from the universities of Cardiff and East Anglia.
It's amazing that money is constantly being wasted on these kind of vacuous studies. Surprise, people trust their local operators more than they trust some anonymous "nuclear industry". People also say they like their own MPs but hate MPs (and politicians) in general. And surprise, some people "had a strong distrust of the UK government". Who would have thought?
The fact that anybody is willing to support any aspect of the nuclear industry is a big snub of the academic middle class people that run Britain (and in particular that run the BBC), because the academic middle class (e.g. the so-called environmentalists) have been demonising nuclear power for the last two decades and more.
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