Does Experience Matter?: The Effect of Local Residents’ Experience on Acceptance of Nuclear Power

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Seol ◽  
Seoyong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Local Residents

The Plot Thickens

Kudankulam ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 171-197
Author(s):  
Raminder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear State ◽  
Public Hearing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
State And Local

Chapter 6 concentrates on a ‘secret’ public hearing that was held on 6 October 2006 with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited in order to swiftly pass the construction of four more reactors at the plant with as little publicity as possible. It provides an exemplary occasion with which to consider the clash of epistemologies between the nuclear state and local residents. For the authorities, the public hearing was no more than a matter of paper protocol. For members of the public, the occasion was loaded with expectations of genuine consultation, justice, and recompense as a matter of an overdue and urgent entitlement—it being the first ever public hearing on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. After a look at the sovereignty of the nuclear state through its reliance on science and law, the author casts a lens on the preparations, processes and the aftermath of the public hearing, noting some of the direct, creative, and nuanced challenges to the nuclear state.

scholarly journals Exposure and current health issues in Minamisoma

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
M. Tsubokura
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stress Changes ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Exposure Levels ◽  
The Cost

Various reports have shown that internal and external exposure levels of local residents after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were very low. However, there are serious postdisaster health effects in the form of increased prevalence of diabetes and other chronic conditions. Stress, changes in the social environment and in living arrangements, and disruption in healthcare support provided by a network of people have resulted in increasing the cost of care and changing patients’ behaviour, such as delay in visiting a hospital. In addition to radiation protection, it is necessary, when looking after the health of Fukushima residents, to focus on human networking, social infrastructure, and protection of culture and history that are intangible, and not to overlook their roles in health.

scholarly journals Communicating radiation risks to the residents of the Chernobyl-affected areas in Russia: key lessons learned

2021 ◽  
pp. 014664532110109
Author(s):  
I. Abalkina ◽  
E. Melikhova ◽  
M. Savkin
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Radiological Protection ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
15Th Anniversary ◽  
Local Residents

This paper does not necessarily reflect the views of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. This article analyses the communication experiences of radiation protection experts at federal/regional and local level. Efforts to justify protective measures were more successful at federal level, while the task of adjusting risk perception among local residents remains unresolved. At the recovery stage (15 years after the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant), the main difficulties were associated with the fact that expert knowledge was in conflict with public perception of the risk of low doses and legislative approaches. In these situations, communication success depends directly on an expert’s personality. When large areas are affected, the efforts of a few dedicated experts are clearly not sufficient. More systematic approaches (training of doctors, teachers, etc.) require governmental support and experienced personnel. Federal authorities had changed their attitudes by the 15th anniversary of the accident. However, at regional level, this process stretched out for another 15 years. Public perception of large-scale health consequences still persists. Examples and survey results are presented in this article.

scholarly journals Evacuation and Community Issues Caused by Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Akira Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Community Conflict ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
Evacuation Behaviors

The aim of this study is to clarify the evacuation behaviors of the local residents in a small rural community called “T” district in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture at the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) on March 11th, 2011 and how their personal relationship changed subsequently. This district suffered more impact from the nuclear disaster caused by Tokyo Electrical Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TEPCO-1F NPS) accident than from the earthquake itself: a split in the community arising from the residents’ various evacuation behaviors and disagreement in their attitudes toward radioactivity. For example, a serious conflict occurred between those who returned from out-of–district evacuation (“escapees”) and those who consistently stayed within the district (“non-escapees”). However, on the other hand, as a way to maintain their community functions, there was an attempt made by the returnees inside the community in order to temper the conflict and another attempt provided from outside of the community such as the re-start of university student experience program which had been carried out by the local residents before the GEJE. Now that nearly 6 years have passed since the occurrence of the GEJE, the community conflict is becoming less obvious but not yet completely solved.

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