this in turn seems to have contributed to greater overall support for nuclear power generation figure illustrates the shares of positive and negative responses to the proposition the use of nuclear energy enables european countries to diversify their energy sources on the vertical axis and the share of support for nuclear energy on the horizontal axis the correlation is examined for nuclear and nonnuclear countries the correlation coefficients are for and of for relatively high correlation coefficients suggest that the role of nuclear power in the diversification of energy sources is one of the key drivers behind increasing public support for nuclear generation