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THREE MILE ISLAND: POLL RESULTS
On Monday, March 22, the Sustainable Energy Coalition will issue the
following news release on its new public opinion survey on nuclear power.
Please feel free to share this release with your local media and others as
well
as reprint it in your organization's newsletter.
"SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COALITION
315 Circle Avenue, #2; Takoma Park, MD 20912
For Release: March 22, 1999 - noon
Contact: Scott Denman 202-483-8491, ext.*814
Charlie Higley 202-546-4996, ext. 309
Washington DC -- Twenty years after the March 28, 1979 accident at the Three
Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, most Americans
believe a similar accident could happen again in the United States .
Furthermore, six out of ten registered voters oppose the building of any new
nuclear plants in the United States and, if given a choice of generator from
which they could buy their electricity, only six percent would choose nuclear
power.
These are among the key findings of a new public opinion survey released
today by the Sustainable Energy Coalition. The survey of 1,022 registered
voters was conducted March 5-14 by International Communications Research
of Media, Pennsylvania; it has a margin of error of +/-3.0 percent.
Two-thirds (67%) of respondents stated that they believe that it was highly
(21%) or somewhat (46%) likely that a nuclear accident like that which
occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant could happen in the United
States again. This view is held by male and female voters across all
political
party lines and age groups. It is therefore not surprising that three-fifths
(60%)
of all registered voters oppose the building of more nuclear power plants in
the
United States with women (69%) and younger voters (65%) particularly opposed.
The respondents overall were evenly split on the question of whether existing
reactors should be phased out by the year 2020. However, a nuclear phase-out
is embraced by a majority of Democratic voters (51% vs. 35%). Furthermore,
the responses reveal a clear gender gap with women favoring a phase-out by a
margin of 48% to 35%. Perhaps more troubling for the nuclear industry is that
younger voters support a phase-out of nuclear reactors by an even larger
margin of 50% to 40%.
'Most Americans think an accident like that which occurred at Three Mile
Island could happen again and want no new plants built,' said Scott Denman,
Executive Director of the Safe Energy Communication Council. 'This provides
convincing proof that voters believe nuclear power remains an unsafe,
unreliable, and uneconomic source of electricity.'
Finally, the survey suggests that as the nation's utility marketplace is
gradually
opened to competition, the nuclear industry is faced with a bleak future
inasmuch as only 6% of voters would opt to buy their electricity from nuclear
generators. In comparison, an overwhelming number of consumers (62%) would
prefer to buy their electricity from renewable energy sources (i.e., solar,
wind,
geothermal, biomass, and hydroelectric) while another 18% would choose
natural gas and 4% would select coal.
'Twenty years after the Three Mile Island accident, the nuclear industry has
clearly never recovered,' said Wenonah Hauter, Director of Public Citizen's
Critical Mass Energy Project. 'It is a dying industry dependent on an
outmoded technology for which there is little public support and which most
consumers are prepared to reject in the marketplace.'
Question #1: On March 28, 1979, the worst accident involving a U.S. nuclear
reactor occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Do you think a nuclear accident like that which occurred at the
Three Mile Island plant could happen in the United States again? Would you say
it is ...
Highly Likely 21.3%
Somewhat Likely 45.6%
Somewhat Unlikely 16.7%
Highly Unlikely 11.7%
Don't Remember TMI 0.8%
Don't Know 3.1%
Refused 0.8%
Question #2: Do you favor or oppose the building of more nuclear power plants
in the United States?
Oppose 59.8%
Favor 25.6%
Don't Know 13.4%
Refused 1.2%
Question #3: Should the United States phase out its existing nuclear power
plants by the year 2020?
Yes 43.3%
No 43.8%
Don't Know 12.0%
Refused 1.0%
Question #4: If you had a choice, from what one type of power plant would you
buy electricity?
Renewable Energy* 61.5%
Natural Gas 18.3%
Nuclear 6.3%
Coal 4.4%
Don't Know 8.0%
Refused 1.5%
*(i.e., solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric)
A one-page table presenting the above responses with details on how they
broke down along gender, age, and political party lines can be faxed upon
request. The complete 15-page survey "America Speaks Out on Energy:
Nuclear Power" (including charts and demographic data) is available for $10
prepaid from the Sustainable Energy Coalition (315 Circle Avenue, #2, Takoma
Park, MD 20912-4836).
The Sustainable Energy Coalition is a coalition of 36 national energy policy
organizations founded in 1992 to promote increased use of renewable energy
and energy efficient technologies."
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