Perception of Potential Nuclear Disaster: The Relation of Likelihood and Consequence Estimates of Risk

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1119-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dinshaw Mehta ◽  
Paul Simpson-Housley
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Plant Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study examined the correlations of ratings of expectation of a future disaster in a nuclear power plant and estimations of its consequences in a random sample of 150 adults who lived within two kilometers of a nuclear power plant. Analysis suggested a significant positive but low relation. This finding indicates that risk perception might be explored using constellations of beliefs and attitudes toward hazards without invoking personality characteristics like trait anxiety or demographic variables such as gender.

Trait Anxiety and Perception of a Potential Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Mehta ◽  
Paul Simpson-Housley
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
High Trait ◽  
High Trait Anxiety

This study explored how trait anxiety interacts with various demographic variables in influencing how potential nuclear power disaster is assessed by a random sample of 150 adults (77 women, 73 men) who live near a nuclear power plant. Expectation of a future nuclear power plant disaster was positively related to high trait-anxiety elevations in women who were childless.

Role of nurses in a nuclear disaster: experience in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Noto ◽  
C. Kitamiya ◽  
C. Itaki ◽  
M. Urushizaka ◽  
R. Kidachi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Disaster Experience

Psychological status of chernobyl nuclear power plant operators after the nuclear disaster

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor S. Koscheyev ◽  
Vladimir K. Martens ◽  
Alexander A. Kosenkov ◽  
Michael A. Lartzev ◽  
Gloria R. Leon
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Nuclear Disaster

scholarly journals Risk perception, trust, and factors related to a planned new nuclear power plant in Taiwan after the 2011 Fukushima disaster

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung-Chun Ho ◽  
Shu-Fen Kao ◽  
Jung-Der Wang ◽  
Chien-Tien Su ◽  
Chiao-Tzu Patricia Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

scholarly journals Bipolarization of Risk Perception about the Health Effects of Radiation in Residents after the Accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e0129227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makiko Orita ◽  
Naomi Hayashida ◽  
Yumi Nakayama ◽  
Tetsuko Shinkawa ◽  
Hideko Urata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Effects Of Radiation

My Nuclear Nightmare

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Kan
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Tsunami Waves ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan Area ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Day By Day

On March 11, 2011, a massive undersea earthquake off Japan's coast triggered devastating tsunami waves that in turn caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Ranked with Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in history, Fukushima will have lasting consequences for generations. Until 3.11, Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as Kan watched the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant unfold and came to understand the potential for the physical, economic, and political destruction of Japan. This book offers a fascinating day-by-day account of the Prime Minister's actions in the harrowing week after the earthquake struck. He records the anguished decisions he had to make as the scale of destruction became clear and the threat of nuclear catastrophe loomed ever larger—decisions made on the basis of information that was often unreliable. For example, frustrated by the lack of clarity from the executives at Tepco, the company that owned the power plant, Kan decided to visit Fukushima himself, despite the risks, so he could talk to the plant's manager and find out what was really happening on the ground. As the text details, a combination of extremely good fortune and hard work just barely prevented a total meltdown of all of Fukushima's reactor units, which would have necessitated the evacuation of the thirty million residents of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.

Issues in Radiation Nursing Education in Japan Before and After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Teruko Horiuchi ◽  
Chieri Yamada ◽  
Misako Kinoshita ◽  
Nobuaki Moriyama ◽  
Seiji Yasumura
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

Abstract Background: The response of nurses in Japan to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident was deemed inadequate. This study examined the issues in Japanese radiation nursing education. Method: Anonymous, self-administered postal questionnaires were sent to managers and teachers of 1053 basic nursing educational institutions in Japan. Results: Among the 342 institutions that completed the questionnaire, 218 (63.7%) had incorporated Radiological Nursing Education into their curriculum while 124 (36.3%) had not. Based on the time of their incorporation, they were divided into the pre-accident incorporation group and the post-accident incorporation groups. For 89 of 111 institutions (85.6%) in the former group, the main reason for the incorporation was radiotherapy care. For 11 of 26 institutions (42.3%) in the latter group, the incorporation was their response to the nuclear disaster. Conclusion: Nursing education in Japan has been inadequate, and as such, nurses find it hard to respond to nuclear disasters. Examining the current nursing education system and building a new model based on the nuclear disaster experience are urgent issues.

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