D6.3: Socio-Economic study

One aspect which will be key to the deployment of a hydrogen production plant (HPP) connected to an existing nuclear power plant (NPP) is public acceptance. If utilities have the support of the local community, then this can help facilitate the deployment of such cogeneration. However, if public acceptance is not handled in the right way, this could lead to opposition and thus making such deployment more challenging.The first goal of this deliverable was to identify existing work which has been undertaken to assess the public’s acceptance of nuclear, hydrogen and a combination of the two. In this respect, whilst a lot has been done to measure public acceptance of nuclear and hydrogen separately, there is very little research into how the public would respond to coupling an NPP with an HPP.As a result, the second objective was to develop and test a public acceptance survey to see what information would be needed, how to phrase questions and ultimately see if the information obtained would provide some insights. This survey was split into two target audiences. The first one was an EU level survey, which aimed to target Europeans in general. The second was focused on Ukraine.