Partisan amplification of risk: American perceptions of nuclear energy risk in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster

Sara K. Yeo, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele, Kristin Runge, Leona Y. Su, Jiyoun Kim, Michael Xenos and Elizabeth A. Corley

Energy Policy, 2014, vol. 67, issue C, 727-736

Abstract: This study examines risk perceptions toward nuclear power before and after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster using nationally representative survey samples of American adults.

Keywords: Fukushima; Ideology; Perceptual filters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.061

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