Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety : From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations

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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. Read more... Abstract: 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Entering into Resilience Faced with an Extreme Situation (Franck Guarnieri)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Does the Concept of Loss Orient Risk Prevention Policy? (Dominique Pecaud)....Pages 21-34 How the Fukushima Daiichi Accident Changed (or not) the Nuclear Safety Fundamentals? (Kazuo Furuta, Taro Kanno)....Pages 35-45 Consequences of Severe Nuclear Accidents on Social Regulations in Socio-Technical Organizations (Christophe Martin)....Pages 47-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 A Multiscale Bayesian Data Integration Approach for Mapping Radionuclide Contamination (Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Masahiko Okumura, Kimiaki Saito)....Pages 57-65 Challenges for Nuclear Safety from the Viewpoint of Natural Hazard Risk Management (Tatsuya Itoi, Naoto Sekimura)....Pages 67-78 The Economic Assessment of the Cost of Nuclear Accidents (Romain Bizet, François Lévêque)....Pages 79-96 Considering Nuclear Accident in Energy Modeling Analysis (Ryoichi Komiyama)....Pages 97-110 Deprivation of Media Attention by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Comparison Between National and Local Newspapers (Ryuma Shineha, Mikihito Tanaka)....Pages 111-125 Development of a Knowledge Management System for Energy Driven by Public Feedback (Massimiliano Fratoni, Joonhong Ahn, Brandie Nonnecke, Giorgio Locatelli, Ken Goldberg)....Pages 127-133 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 What Cultural Objects Say About Nuclear Accidents and Their Way of Depicting a Controversial Industry (Aurélien Portelli)....Pages 137-156 Why Is It so Difficult to Learn from Accidents? (Kohta Juraku)....Pages 157-168 Decision-Making in Extreme Situations Following the Fukushima Daiichi Accident (Sébastien Travadel)....Pages 169-183 An Ethical Perspective on Extreme Situations and Nuclear Safety Preservation (Hortense Blazsin)....Pages 185-193 Japan’s Nuclear Imaginaries Before and After Fukushima: Visions of Science, Technology, and Society (Kyoko Sato)....Pages 195-206 The Institute of Resilient Communities (Kai Vetter)....Pages 207-218 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Ground Motion Prediction for Regional Seismic Risk Analysis Including Nuclear Power Station (Hiroyasu Abe)....Pages 221-227 Effects of Inelastic Neutron Scattering in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Devices (Ivana Abramovic)....Pages 229-232 The Account of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident by the Plant Manager: A Source to Study Engineering Thinking in Extreme Situations (Aissame Afrouss)....Pages 233-241 On Safety Management Devices: Injunction and Order Use in Emergency Situation (Sophie Agulhon)....Pages 243-250 The Water Neutron Detector (Alexandra (Sasha) Asghari)....Pages 251-255 Human Error and Defense in Depth: From the “Clambake” to the “Swiss Cheese” (Justin Larouzée)....Pages 257-267 Criticality Safety Study for the Disposal of Damaged Fuels from Fukushima Daiichi Reactors (Xudong Liu)....Pages 269-277 Rational and Non-rational Influence in a Time-Constrained Group Decision Making (Dipta Mahardhika, Adrián Agulló Valls, Taro Kanno, Kazuo Furuta)....Pages 279-287 Evaluation of Optimal Power Generation Mix Considering Nuclear Power Plants’ Shut-Down Risk (Hiromu Matsuzawa, Ryoichi Komiyama, Yasumasa Fujii)....Pages 289-302 A Hybrid Finite Element and Mesh-Free Particle Method for Disaster-Resilient Design of Structures (Naoto Mitsume, Shinobu Yoshimura, Kohei Murotani, Tomonori Yamada)....Pages 303-310 Lack of Cesium Bioaccumulation in Gelatinous Marine Life in the Pacific Northwest Pelagic Food-Web (Delvan R. Neville, Kathryn A. Higley)....Pages 311-315 RadWatch Near-Realtime Air Monitoring (Natural Radioactive Backgrounds and Outreach) (Ryan Pavlovsky)....Pages 317-324 Incorporating Value Discussions into High Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Policy: Results of Developing Fieldwork (Rin Watanabe)....Pages 325-333 Front Matter ....Pages 335-335 Hybrid Disasters—Hybrid Knowledge (Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse)....Pages 337-351 Back Matter ....Pages 353-356