• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.767-772
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• 2018

Public acceptance is a major issue that will determine the future of nuclear energy. In this article, we review relevant studies and identify several common patterns of nuclear public acceptance. Based on these patterns and four categories of factors, we propose hypotheses on the impact of different socioeconomic factors on the public opinion of nuclear energy. These factors were demographic and social influences, politico-economic, energy conditions, and nuclear accidents and natural risks. We tested these hypotheses using a data set including survey results on public opinion of nuclear energy in 59 countries from 1987 to 2014. Results of the regression analysis generally verified the proposed hypotheses, especially regarding the positive impact of education or geological suitability and the negative effect of improved living standards and democracy on nuclear acceptance. We propose policy recommendations, including a better focus on education and communication and a thorough consideration of the social and geological conditions a country needs to make before deciding to go nuclear. Potential weaknesses of this study are also discussed, including the possible causal relation between independent variables and the binary nature of the dependent variable.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.87-103
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• 2019

In December 2017, the Moon Jae-in administration announced a major policy shift away from nuclear and coal, committing itself to the vision of creating a society where renewable sources account for 20% of its electricity generation by 2030. This energy transition involves not just a technical transition from conventional energy sources to renewable energy but also active participation of multiple stakeholders in the energy governance. While energy policy making has long been dominated by the central government in Korea with the aim of managing the supply for rapid industrialization and economic growth, the Moon administration aims to diffuse the central government's authority across various actors in society. Among those actors, this study focuses on the roles that local governments play in energy transition. Despite deepening local autonomy since 1995, Korean local governments have remained policy targets or recipients in the energy policy domain. This article discusses how such a traditional role has evolved under the new administration's energy transition policy and examines what challenges and limitations local governments face in creating a more decentralized energy governance system.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2019년도 춘계학술논문요약집
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• pp.25-26
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• 2019

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권8호
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• pp.2034-2041
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• 2019

Public acceptance has become the most critical question for sustainable development of nuclear energy in recent decades. Many researches concentrated on risk and benefit perception, which were deemed as the most influential factors of Public Acceptance of Nuclear Energy (PANE). But few researches focused on psychological factors including regulatory focus. Therefore, this paper aimed to explore the moderating effect of regulatory focus on PANE based on Regulatory Focus Theory in order to find ways to increase/decrease PANE. An Internet-based survey had been carried out in China nationwide. The results indicated that trust in government was positively related to PANE and this relationship was mediated by risk and benefit perception. In addition, the strength of the associations between risk and benefit perception and PANE were moderated by regulatory focus, consisting of prevention focus and promotion focus. Prevention focus strengthened the negative relationship between risk perception and PANE, while promotion focus weakened. Moreover, promotion focus weakened the positive relationship between benefit perception and PANE, but no significant moderating effect of prevention focus was founded on the relationship between benefit perception and PANE. Some policy implications were also proposed on the basis of above-mentioned findings.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.1090-1094
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• 2017

The determinants of the public's nuclear power acceptance have received considerable attention as decisive factors regarding nuclear power policy. However, the contingency of the relative importance of different determinants has been less explored. Building on the literature of psychological distance between the individual and the object, the present study demonstrates that the relative effects of different types of perceived risks regarding nuclear power generation differ across acceptance targets. Using a sample of Korea, our results show that, regarding national acceptance of nuclear power generation, perceived risk from nuclear power plants exerts a stronger negative effect than that from radioactive waste management; however, the latter exerts a stronger negative effect than the former on local acceptance of a nuclear power plant. This finding provides implications for efficient public communication strategy to raise nuclear power acceptance.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.153-174
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• 2019

South Korea's energy policy has been historically established through an energy production structure that relies on thermal and nuclear power generation in relation to a centralized 'Hard Energy System'. However, climate change issues are forcing the transition to renewable energy, and it is crucial for local governments to enable this. This study analyses Seoul city's local energy governance, which is known as One Less Nuclear Power Plant Initiative, by applying the collaborative governance framework inspired by Ansell and Gash (2008) and the Reflexivity framework of Confucianism. It is considered that the local energy governance model of Seoul city can be used as a model by other local governments, and it will eventually lead to a decentralized energy system in this era of energy transition.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.235-286
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• 2018

The aim of paper is to develop an alternative framework for the study of technological innovation systems. In contrast with conventional literature, this analytical framework is designed for entrepreneurs, i.e. actors, at the micro level rather than policy-makers at the meso or macro level. Herein, the entrepreneurial innovation system is conceptually refined by synthesizing knowledge regarding technological innovation and innovation systems. Drawing upon the intrinsic technological identity essential for innovation, the entrepreneurial innovation system is shown to involve three core changes in terms of technology, organization and market, and their couplings within its internal boundary over time. This analytical framework also takes into account the fact that the innovation system is influenced by and copes with the external environment during its evolution. Moreover, the framework of the entrepreneurial innovation system considers the recent trend of sustainable development. The technical and socio-economic characteristics of a nuclear powersystem are studied empirically to articulate an analytical framework that should be very useful for technological innovation in other energy systems by reflecting their unique features.

• 에너지공학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.8-12
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• 2011

온실가스 감축을 위한 단기 정책으로는 기존의 고효율 에너지 기기의 보급을 촉진하고 에너지 효율을 개선하는 에너지 효율개선, 에너지 절약사업에 투자를 활성화하는 것 등이 포함된다. 장기적으로는 기술개발이 핵심정책이다. 에너지수요의 저감을 위해서는 에너지 효율이 향상된 기기와 공정이 개발되어야 한다. 에너지 공급측면에서 온실가스 감축정책은 태양광, 풍력, 지열, 바이오매스 등과 같은 신재생에너지와 원자력과 같은 온실가스를 거의 배출하지 않는 저배출 에너지원의 공급을 확대하여 화석연료를 대체하는 것이다. 에너지 소비측면에서 온실가스 감축대책은 에너지 효율향상 정책과 맥을 같이 한다. 산업과 건물부문에서 에너지 다소비사업장, 건물 등에 대한 자발적 협약을 강화하고, 에너지 절약시설에 대한 투자를 강화하는 정책을 시행해야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.43-63
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• 2023

목적: 핵·원자력 분야는 전통적으로 정무외교·경제외교 영역에 속했다. 핵확산 문제는 사안의 중대성과 국제안보에 미치는 심각성, 강대국과 비확산레짐의 영향력 등을 고려했을 때 당연히 국가 간 해결해야 할 문제였고, 원자력 에너지 산업도 예산과 인력, 사업의 규모 등을 고려했을 때 경제적 관점에서 접근했던 것이다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 기존의 관점에서 탈피하여 공공외교가 핵·원자력이라는 새로운 영역으로 확장될 수 있는지 그 가능성을 살펴보는 것이다. 방법: 이를 위해 핵·원자력 분야에서 한국의 위치가 가지는 특수성을 살펴보고 공공외교의 특성과 비교하여 상호 중첩되는 영역이 있는지 분석한다. 결과: 핵·원자력 이슈에 관한 한국의 특수성, 공공외교와의 중첩 등을 고려했을 때 해당 분야에 대한 공공외교의 영역 확장과 역할 확대는 가능할 것으로 보인다. 특히, 국가의 주도적 역할이 필요하다는 점과 한국의 안보 및 경제 구조를 고려했을 때 지속적인 정책적 수요가 있다는 점에서 그러하다. 실제로 카이스트 핵비확산교육연구센터(KAIST NEREC)에서는 하계장학생프로그램(Summer Fellows Program) 운영을 통해 핵·원자력 분야의 공공외교를 펼치고 있으며, 상당한 성과를 거두고 있는 것으로 평가된다. 결론: 따라서 본 논문에서는 전통적으로 정무외교, 정상외교, 경제외교의 관점에서 접근해왔던 핵·원자력 이슈에 대해 공공외교의 역할 증진 가능성을 높게 평가하고 이와 유사한 공공외교 활동들에 대한 예산 지원, 프로그램 및 인력 확대가 필요함을 강조한다. 이를 통해 한국의 핵정책과 원자력 산업이 국제사회의 지지를 얻고 한국의 국익 향상에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회
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• pp.56-66
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• 2005

In response to the increasing emphasis being placed on the importance of international cooperation as part of global efforts to cope with growing non proliferation, and security, concerns in the nuclear field, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, appointed an international group of experts to consider possible multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle. The mandate of the Expert Group was three fold: ${\bullet}$ To identify and provide an analysis of issues and options relevant to multilateral approaches to the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle; ${\bullet}$ To provide an overview of the policy, legal, security, economic, institutional and technological incentives and disincentives for cooperation in multilateral arrangements for the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle; and ${\bullet}$ To provide a brief review of the historical and current experiences and analyses relating to multilateral fuel cycle arrangements relevant to the work of the Expert Group. The overall purpose was to assess MNAs in the framework of a double objective: strengthening the international nuclear non proliferation regime and making the peaceful uses of nuclear energy more economical and attractive. The Group identifies options for MNAs - options in terms of policy, institutional and legal factors - for those parts of the nuclear fuel cycle of greatest sensitivity from the point of view of proliferation risk. It also reflects the Groups deliberations on the corresponding benefits and disadvantages (pros and cons) of the various options and approaches. Although the Expert Group was able to agree to forward the resulting report to the Director General, it is important to note that the report does not reflect agreement by all of the experts on any of the options, nor a consensus assessment of their respective value. It is intended only to present options for MNAs, and to reflect on the range of considerations which could impact on the desirability and feasibility of those options.