Missouri Seeks to Become Global Producer of Small Nuclear Reactors

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9. Not really.

One is a global survey taken just weeks after a major nuclear disaster (and even then still showed support in the US).

The other is a very current poll of americans taken by the premier polling firm in the country.

It's worth keeping in mind that it's not the middle-of-the-road opponents who cause nuclear plans to be cancelled. It's the hard-core opponents, out a couple of sigmas from the mean.

That was certainly true three decades ago. Their influence appears to have waned.

That 25% number I bolded above hints that this is what is happening.

Hints thats what was happening a year ago. Did you know that they ran the poll again six months later?

Public Support for Nuclear Energy makes early recovery after Fukushima

The latest face-to-face survey of the British public by Ipsos MORI shows that public support for nuclear energy has bounced back strongly since its June 2011 low point in the wake of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March.

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2903/Nuclear-Energy-Update-Poll.aspx

Public support had been generally climbing for years prior to fukushima. It took a very understandable dip in the wake of fukushima... but there's every indication that much of the dip was temporary.