Abstract:As an efficient and clean energy source, nuclear energy is an important way to achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and plays an important role in ensuring national energy security. China only distributes and builds nuclear power in coastal areas, and its location is limited, which restricts the sustainable development of nuclear energy, and it is also difficult to alleviate the contradiction between the rapid economic development and unreasonable energy structure of inland provinces. The biggest difficulty in restarting inland nuclear power plants is not the “hard target” of construction, but whether the public accepts this “hard condition”. This paper integrates the technical acceptance model and planned behavior theory, introduces perceived risk and trust, and establishes a theoretical model based on the field survey of residents around Taohuajiang Nuclear Power Plant in Hunan Province to explore the impact of perceived usefulness, perceived risk, subjective norms, behavior attitude, perceived behavior control and trust on public acceptance of inland nuclear power restart. The research results show that perceived usefulness, behavioral attitude and trust have a significant positive impact on public acceptance of inland nuclear power restart, and perceived risk has a significant negative impact on it; public acceptance of inland nuclear power restart is not related to subjective norm, perceived behavior control. There was a significant correlation; perceived usefulness had a positive effect on behavioral attitudes and trust.