Nuclear energy for decades has served as the nation’s primary source of emission-free energy, with both significant public support and opposition. Ann Stouffer Bisconti, PhD and Bisconti Research have studied public attitudes and communications on this topic, over the past four decades. These studies provide the most comprehensive understanding of public opinion on nuclear energy available anywhere.

What have we learned from our national public opinion surveys, surveys of plant neighbors, focus groups, and other in-depth research and testing? We now devote our website to sharing these lessons in brief reports as we compile them.  

Our appreciation to all those who support this research, including the Nuclear Energy Institute that established this program of research in 1983 to guide stakeholder communications. Additional sponsors from governments, research communities, and the private sector, and evolving circumstances have added new questions to this quest.