Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety - From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations

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This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on nuclear safety: while there were no casualties due to radiation, there was substantial damage to local communities. The lack of common understanding of the basics of environmental and radiological sciences has made it difficult for stakeholders to develop effective strategies to accelerate recovery, and this is compounded by a lack of effective decision-making due to the eroded public trust in the government and operators. Recognizing that making a society resilient and achieving higher levels of safety relies on public participation in and feedback on decision-making, the book focuses on risk perception and mitigation in its discussion of the development of resilient communities.

List of contents

Introduction.- Part I: What are damages in Nuclear Accidents?- Part II: Measurement of Damages.- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience.- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience.- Epilogue.

Summary

Collects cross-disciplinary discussions on resilience and nuclear safetyRepresents integration and collaboration among environmental science, radiological science, engineering, social sciences, and humanitiesIndicates future research questions and tasks to achieve a resilient society for higher level of nuclear safety

Product details

• Assisted by: Joonhong Ahn (Editor), Kazuo Furuta (Editor), Franc Guarnieri (Editor), Franck Guarnieri (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9783319587677
• ISBN: 978-3-31-958767-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 356 p. 62 illus., 48 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics; B, Environmental Policy, Environmental Health, Technology: general issues, Ethics & moral philosophy, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear power & engineering, Environmental Sciences, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Central / national / federal government policies, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Radiation protection, Radiation—Safety measures, Environmental Science and Engineering, Engineering Ethics