Talk:Public opinion on nuclear issues

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"Nuclear issues"? Weapons and energy are quite different things. There is no sense in combining them in this way - this article should be split into two to avoid confusion.

Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are closely related. Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear power program have a dual-use capability, in that they can be used to make nuclear weapons if a country chooses to do so. When this happens a nuclear power program can become a route leading to the atomic bomb or a public annex to a secret bomb program. The crisis over Iran's nuclear activities is a case in point.^[1]

A "number of high-ranking officials, even within the United Nations, have argued that they can do little to stop states using nuclear reactors to produce nuclear weapons".^[2] A 2009 United Nations report said that:

The revival of interest in nuclear power could result in the worldwide dissemination of uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing technologies, which present obvious risks of proliferation as these technologies can produce fissile materials that are directly usable in nuclear weapons.^[2]

So "nuclear issues" is the appropriate term, and I notice that the major 2005 IAEA survey was entitled Global Public Opinion on Nuclear Issues.

-- Johnfos (talk) 10:54, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

7 out of the 17 citations are no longer working. Also no data was provided for nuclear weapons in the years of 2005, 2012 and 2016. If data is available for those years it should be added.Kent3tres (talk) 23:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)Kent3tres[reply]

^ Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan (Fall 2009). "Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation?". Dædalus.
^ ^a ^b Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy, World Scientific, p. 190.

[dfall2009-1] Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan (Fall 2009). "Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation?". Dædalus.

[bks2011-2] Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy, World Scientific, p. 190.

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