Public Opinion and Nuclear Energy
Author: Stanley M. Nealey
Publisher: Great Source Education Group
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 236
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Author: Stanley M. Nealey
Publisher: Great Source Education Group
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Marsh
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher: Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 126
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis document discusses public opinion regarding nuclear power which is particularly difficult to tie down because of five important paradoxes that characterize it: it can be based on sound reason, but also on intense emotion; it is both national and local in perspective; at varying times it has seen nuclear power as both ''clean'' and ''dirty''; it believes nuclear power is both economic, and uneconomic; and nuclear power is perceived as having a fairly safe record, but being potentially unsafe. Equally as complex as the process by which public opinion is formed is the process by which it is converted into public policy. The American political system has numerous checks and balances designed to moderate the power of public opinion. A complex series of legislative, judicial, and executive branch hurdles must be cleared before any idea, however popular, can become day-to-day operating reality in government. As a result, major changes in policy or programs are difficult, and we may expect that nuclear power will be no different; radical change in one direction or the other is unlikely. Nevertheless, carefully focused programs could achieve modest progress, and carefully designed public opinion surveys could support such programs.
Author: Ortwin Renn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1475748914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined. The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research.
Author: David Cortright
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1994 the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, in cooperation with the Fourth Freedom Forum, conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of the Indian public's attitude toward nuclear arms. This book examines the findings of that landmark survey.
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
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Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9789201201201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo address the challenges posed by climate change, and to achieve the goals established in the 2015 Paris Agreement, nuclear power has been identified to have great potential to contribute to the 1.5°C climate change mitigation target. This topical conference on climate change and the role of nuclear power, the first of its kind, served as a unique forum for exchanging science-based information on the role of nuclear power in supporting the low carbon energy transformation and for conducting objective discussions on the opportunities and challenges of safe, secure and safeguarded nuclear technology development. The major themes of the conference covered energy and climate change policies, implications for the power sector, environmental perspectives and potential roles of existing, evolutionary and innovative nuclear power systems, including the integration of nuclear/renewable energy systems. In addition to nuclear power's interim and long term contributions, some strategic and cross-cutting issues relating to public perception, regulations, markets and finance were also addressed. These proceedings provide a summary of the different plenary, technical and side event sessions as well as the full text of the speeches delivered in the opening, closing and high-level plenary sessions of the conference.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1992-02-01
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0309043956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe construction of nuclear power plants in the United States is stopping, as regulators, reactor manufacturers, and operators sort out a host of technical and institutional problems. This volume summarizes the status of nuclear power, analyzes the obstacles to resumption of construction of nuclear plants, and describes and evaluates the technological alternatives for safer, more economical reactors. Topics covered include: Institutional issues-including regulatory practices at the federal and state levels, the growing trends toward greater competition in the generation of electricity, and nuclear and nonnuclear generation options. Critical evaluation of advanced reactors-covering attributes such as cost, construction time, safety, development status, and fuel cycles. Finally, three alternative federal research and development programs are presented.