To no one's surprise, the frightening news and images from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulted in some slippage in support for nuclear energy among the general US public. But what about the people living next to the nation's nuclear power plants? How has all this news affected their attitudes?The frightening news and images from the Fuku-shima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulted in some slippage in support for nuclear energy among the general US public.A program of research begun in 2005 to track public opinion of residents near US nuclear power plants provides answers to this question. Twenty percent of US electricity is produced by 104 reactors at 64 sites across the country. The research program consists of biennial surveys of people living within the 10-mile radius of each of these sites.
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