Literature Review on Public Acceptance of Nuclear Energy: Research Outline, Theoretical Framework, and Prospect

Public acceptance of nuclear energy is a rapidly developing cross-cutting research topic and one of the most representative research topics in the risk perception discipline. The domestic academia is still in its exploratory stage and relatively lags behind the international academic frontier in its theoretical level and research methods. This study takes the journal articles in the authoritative scientific indexes as the object, and employs the methods of theoretical review to conduct comprehensive research. Based on a review of the literature on public acceptance of nuclear energy in China and abroad, this article integrates the determinants of public acceptance of nuclear energy identified by the existing research into a unified analytical framework. The article further points out the gaps and weaknesses in existing research and discusses the directions for future research.