Attitude of the Populace to Energy Questions after Chernobyl (July 1986)

Attitude to energy corporations and to nuclear power. Judgement on the
reactor accident in Chernobyl.

Topics: most important political tasks; sympathy scale for the Post
Office, trade unions, oil companies, insurance companies, employer´s
federations, electric companies, banks, home construction companies and
the automobile industry; specification by name of one´s own energy
provider; general impression of the energy provider; desired
information from the power producer; preferred and meaningful energy
sources for future power supply; most important reasons for this
preference; knowledge about the currently most important and in future
desired energy sources in the Federal Republic; most able and most
trusted party or institution or reporter on questions of energy policy;
knowledge about the nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl; extent
of change in attitude to nuclear power plants due to this reactor
accident; earlier and current attitude to nuclear power; trust in the
safety of German nuclear power plants and assessment of the probability
of such an accident in the Federal Republic; attitude to nuclear power
plants and to the long-term or short-term shutting down of nuclear
power plants (scale); willingness to pay increased power prices to
replace nuclear energy; reduction in nuclear energy in the FRG, even
with further operation of nuclear power plants in the other European
Countries; feeling of being affected by the reactor accident in
Chernobyl and assessment of this feeling in the majority of the
population; assessment of the credibility of an energy brochure
depending on different editors; judgement on the description of the
effects of the reactor accident by official sources; party, institution
or media, to whom one ascribes the most believable description of the
effects of the reactor accident; age of children in the household;
party preference and behavior at the polls in the last Federal
Parliament election; distance to the nearest nuclear power plant;
interest in purchase of a condominium or a house; intended point in
time for this purchase.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.