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Record Nr.

UNINA9910231248503321

Autore

Joonhong Ahn

Titolo

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety [[electronic resource] ] : From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations / / edited by Joonhong Ahn, Franck Guarnieri, Kazuo Furuta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2017

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-58768-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 356 p. 62 illus., 48 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Radiation protection

Radiation—Safety measures

Nuclear energy

Environmental sciences

Environmental policy

Environmental economics

Engineering ethics

Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection

Nuclear Energy

Environmental Science and Engineering

Environmental Policy

Environmental Economics

Engineering Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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 saf ety 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.