22 Mar (NucNet): The number of people in Japan who want to decrease or abolish nuclear energy has increased, according to a survey.
The Daily Yomiuri newspaper survey, published on 4 March 2013, shows that 53 percent of respondents want to decrease the use of nuclear energy and 20 percent want to abolish it completely. The corresponding figures in a survey on 3 July 2012 were 46 percent and 19 percent.
The survey also asked respondents if they were worried about radioactivity from Fukushima-Daiichi and its possible impact on themselves and their families. Twenty-nine percent said they were “very worried”, 40 percent said they were “somewhat worried” and 23 percent said they were “not so much worried”.
Twenty-four percent said they were very worried about the possible impact on the economy of the shut-down of most of the country’s nuclear reactors.
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