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Summary:

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.

Table 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.

Contributors:

Ahn, Joonhong , editor

Guarnieri, Franck , editor

Furuta, K. (Kazuo) , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Resilience (Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017 — ISBN 9783319587677; ISBN 3319587676; OCLC Number 982651925)

Subjects:

Nuclear power plants — Safety measures

Nuclear power plants — Accidents — Prevention

Nuclear energy

Environmental sciences

Environmental policy

nuclear power

environmental sciences

environmental policy

Nuclear power plants

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 29, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 356 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TK9152 .R475 2017eb

ISBNs:

9783319587684 (electronic bk.)
3319587684 (electronic bk.)
9783319656328
3319656325
9783319656335
3319656333
9783319587677 (print) [Invalid]
3319587676 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-319-58768-4

OCLC Numbers:

1002109792