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| Series editors' preface | ||
| Preface | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Public opinion and nuclear energy | 1 |
| Public attitudes to nuclear energy | 2 | |
| Public opinion and the Chernobyl accident | 7 | |
| Public opinion and waste management | 9 | |
| Familiarity and public opinion | 11 | |
| Opposition to nuclear energy: two explanations | 11 | |
| Health and safety | 14 | |
| Risks and benefits of public opinion research | 15 | |
| 2 | Risk assessment and risk perception | 18 |
| Risk assessment and risk analysis | 18 | |
| Risk perception | 23 | |
| Risk analysis: facts and values | 34 | |
| 3 | Attitudes, beliefs and values | 39 |
| Attitudes | 39 | |
| Attitudes towards nuclear energy | 41 | |
| Dimensional salience | 43 | |
| Salience and values | 44 | |
| Perseverance of attitudes | 51 | |
| Information processing: the effects of own attitude | 53 | |
| Attitudes, consensus and personal perception | 54 | |
| 4 | Community attitudes towards nuclear power stations | 59 |
| Local versus general attitudes | 59 | |
| Local acceptance during construction | 61 | |
| Local attitudes during siting | 63 | |
| Salience and local attitudes | 65 | |
| Salience and familiarity | 68 | |
| 5 | Siting nuclear waste facilities | 76 |
| Technological and political context | 77 | |
| Public concern and opposition | 79 | |
| Attitudes, risk perception and equity | 82 | |
| Improving equity | 85 | |
| 6 | Environmental stressors | 94 |
| Definition of stress | 95 | |
| Characteristics of environmental stressors | 95 | |
| Theoretical perspectives on stress | 98 | |
| The effects of stressors | 102 | |
| Nuclear energy and stress | 105 | |
| 7 | Nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl | 112 |
| Consequences of the TMI accident | 114 | |
| Stress and psychological effects | 115 | |
| Other effects | 119 | |
| Conclusions about TMI | 120 | |
| The Chernobyl accident | 120 | |
| Public reactions to the Chernobyl accident | 124 | |
| Institutional reactions to Chernobyl | 126 | |
| Conclusions: the consequences of Chernobyl | 130 | |
| 8 | Communicating risks | 132 |
| Case 1: risk communication after the TMI accident | 132 | |
| Case 2: risk communication after Chernobyl | 134 | |
| Information and education | 138 | |
| Emergency information | 140 | |
| Policy decision-making and conflict resolution | 145 | |
| 9 | Decision analysis and nuclear energy policy | 153 |
| Scenarios as decision-making tools | 154 | |
| Risk assessment and policy decision-making | 159 | |
| Multi-attribute utility theory | 160 | |
| Cost-benefit analysis | 162 | |
| Impact assessment | 164 | |
| Value-oriented social decision analysis | 165 | |
| 10 | Conclusions | 168 |
| Bibliography | 171 | |
| Index of subjects | 188 | |
| Index of names | 190 |
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