ATTITUDE TREND ON THE USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY OF MEMBERS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY SOCIETY OF JAPAN

We analyze trends in attitude of nuclear experts toward the use of nuclear energy for three years before and after the 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by using the result of the opinion survey to have a full grasp of the attitude of member of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) toward nuclear energy. Members of AESJ had been positive for the use of nuclear energy before the Fukushima accident. They had the low susceptibility to risk of an accident of nuclear facilities. After the Fukushima accident, some of them had been negative for the use of nuclear energy. Then, their attitudes to the use of nuclear energy show oscillatory changes.