Nuclear Knowledge Management in Stakeholder Community Networks

摘要

Nowadays a possible way to increase safety and security in the use of nuclear energy seems to develop shared multinational nuclear projects. The international scale of such multinational projects emerges building of multilevel global nuclear stakeholder community network, with following hierarchical levels; 1) international stakeholder community; 2) the national stakeholder community, represented by the national governments, and 3)intra-national community. We propose an interdisciplinary synergetic approach to nuclear knowledge management, based on a) self-organization (SO) of various stakeholders, b) the chaos concepts, and c) the principle of requisite variety. Stakeholder knowledge management is considered as a key parameter of societal optimization of nuclear energy activities. The basic elements of societal optimization are considered to be social learning, risk communication and stakeholder involvement in the decision making, thus forming a knowledge-creating community and, as the result, facilitating public acceptance of radioactive waste (RW) management policy decisions. As the basic roles of social learning in the risk communication are proposed: a)diminishing of unknown factor of perceived risk by means of familiarizing affected communities with general nuclear and specific repository issues; b)enhancing ability to understand how the community perceives all real and imaginary risks. It is proposed; self-organized social learning will promote adequate perception of risk and prevent, by diminishing uncertainties and unknown factors, social amplification of an imagined risk, as well as to increase the trust level and facilitate more adequate equity perception. As an example the education of Rw management stakeholders in Latvia is described.