TVO monitors carefully the public acceptance of nuclear power by means of opinion polls and surveys conducted on a yearly basis.
According to a survey conducted by Finnish Energy in late 2018, 87 per cent of Finns are concerned about climate change and believe that the whole world should take immediate action to prevent climate change using any means possible. An increasing number of Finns are of the opinion that nuclear power is an environmentally friendly way of producing electricity. More than half of Finns, 51 per cent, consider nuclear power an environmentally friendly way of producing electricity. Most Finns believe that the consumption of electricity will increase. The share of Finns who believe this has clearly increased since 2014. The number of people who find nuclear power worth supporting is markedly higher than in the previous survey.
The survey was carried out by IRO Research Oy based on an assignment of Finnish Energy in November 2018. The survey was implemented solely through IRO Research’s web panel. The sample of 1,000 respondents was weighted in terms of gender, age, place of residence and political views in order to represent the entire population. The survey’s margin of error is +3.2 percentage units. TVO is a member of Finnish Energy. The results were published on the website of Finnish Energy.
