The invention discloses a cold bed electron beam smelting method for a high-purity nickel ingot. The method comprises the following steps: S1, selecting a high-purity electrolytic nickel plate as a raw material, polishing, cleaning with a cleaning solution, drying, recording the weight, sequentially loading into a bin of an electron beam furnace, fixing, and vacuumizing the electron beam furnace; S2, preheating an electron gun, increasing power, starting a pushing mechanism after the electron gun is stabilized, sequentially pushing the high-purity electrolytic nickel plate fixed in the bin in the step S1 into a cold bed for complete melting to form nickel melt, keeping the nickel melt staying on the cold bed for 24 minutes, and after the nickel melt is fully deflated, enabling the nickel melt to flow into an ingot casting crucible to prepare a nickel ingot; and S3, switching off the electron gun and the vacuum system sequentially, opening the electron beam furnace, and taking the nickel ingot prepared in the step S2 out. According to the method, the problem of internal defects of the nickel ingot in the smelting process is solved, and the product percent of pass and the production efficiency are improved.