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

Table 1

The differences of public opinion polls methodology on public acceptance literature.

Author	Year	Area coverage	Number of respondents	Response scale
(1) IPSOS	2011	24 countries	18,787	(a) Strongly support; (b) Somewhat support; (c) Somewhat oppose; (d) Strongly oppose
(2) Win-Gallup international	2011	47 countries	34,000	(a) Favorable; (b) Unfavorable; (c) Net favor; (d) No response
(3) Wang and Kim	2018	47 countries	1000 per country	(a) Accept; (b) No preference; (c) Refuse
(4) World nuclear association	2021	±50 countries	750–1,000	Various response scales; (a) Positive-negative/favor-against; (b) Favor of building new nuclear power plants, favor of continuing to run existing ones, and wanting to phase out; (c) Favor of building new nuclear power plants, favor of continuing to run existing ones, wanting to phase out nuclear power, and undecided