Overview
- Collects cross-disciplinary discussions on resilience and nuclear safety
- Represents integration and collaboration among environmental science, radiological science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities
- Indicates future research questions and tasks to achieve a resilient society for higher level of nuclear safety
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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.
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Students Contributions
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Epilogue
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety
Book Subtitle: From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations
Editors: Joonhong Ahn, Franck Guarnieri, Kazuo Furuta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58768-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58767-7Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86471-6Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58768-4Published: 15 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 356
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Nuclear Energy, Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Policy, Environmental Economics, Engineering Ethics