Advancing US public acceptance of spent fuel storage and transport: proposed outreach services for ionising radiation education support
| Autor: | C. W. Pennington |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security of Radioactive Material. 24:95-107 |
| ISSN: | 1746-5109 1746-5095 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/1746510914y.0000000050 |
| Popis: | Expansion of commercial nuclear energy could be one of the future US sources for clean, safe, reliable and economic electricity. However, no federal policy has effectively achieved wide acceptance of nuclear energy, with such policies having fallen victim to the politics of public radiation fears from nuclear energy usage and from spent fuel storage and transport. Many experts have described the foundation of public fear as not so much nuclear technology, but the ionising radiation to which people fear they might be exposed, and this issue has been talked and written about, yet gone substantially unaddressed with respect to public education for more than three decades. In the USA, the Blue Ribbon Commission Final Report is just the latest of clear statements where such an educational need is firmly asserted. The lamentable fact is that no one has made that substantive and concerted effort to do anything about it. Indeed, the only effort seems to have been talk about ‘better communication’, with a focus on... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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