An exploratory study on the exit, voice, and loyalty of the local residents near a nuclear power plant

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Cheonhee Park ◽  
Eunyoung Hong
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
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.

An Attitude Survey on the Establishment of Offshore BSL-4 Facility as a NIMBY

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takako Kobayashi ◽  
Takeo Kondo ◽  
Yuji Miura ◽  
Kazukiyo Yamamoto ◽  
Wataru Miyazaki
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Ocean Engineering ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Disposal Facility ◽  
Local Residents

We conducted a pilot attitude survey about attitude towards NIMBY (not in my back yard) facility with the students who major in ocean engineering and environmental engineering as subjects. The results found the following: facilities that are most often considered NIMBYs are a nuclear power plant, an industrial waste disposal facility, followed by a bio-research institute; if a NIMBY is established more than 50 km apart from the subjects’ residential area, its presence becomes acceptable; the degree of rejection lessens in the order of an isolated, uninhabited island, on a desert, and a submarine location. Also, the results showed that the best merit of building a BSL-4 facility offshore is that it can be relocated to another location if necessary. As a conclusion, a BSL-4 facility is most likely to be accepted to the local residents if it is built on a floating construction 50 km offshore, allowing to move to another location if necessary.

scholarly journals Radiocesium concentrations in wild mushrooms collected in Kawauchi Village after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

PeerJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanami Nakashima ◽  
Makiko Orita ◽  
Naoko Fukuda ◽  
Yasuyuki Taira ◽  
Naomi Hayashida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Radioactive Cesium ◽  
Wild Mushrooms ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Average Intake ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Effective Doses ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

It is well known from the experience after the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that radiocesium tends to concentrate in wild mushrooms. In this study, we collected wild mushrooms from the Kawauchi Village of Fukushima Prefecture, located within 30 km of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and evaluated their radiocesium concentrations to estimate the risk of internal radiation exposure in local residents. We found that radioactive cesium exceeding 100 Bq/kg was detected in 125 of 154 mushrooms (81.2%). We calculated committed effective doses based on 6,278 g per year (age > 20 years, 17.2 g/day), the average intake of Japanese citizens, ranging from doses of 0.11–1.60 mSv, respectively. Although committed effective doses are limited even if residents eat contaminated foods several times, we believe that comprehensive risk-communication based on the results of the radiocesium measurements of food, water, and soil is necessary for the recovery of Fukushima after this nuclear disaster.

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