Consensus driven risk perceptions versus majority driven risk determinations

摘要

For decades, US and UK government representatives have claimed that nuclear programs protected public stakeholders (those most impacted by a decision), workers and the environment (e.g. [7]). Subsequent disclosures of widespread contamination at military nuclear facilities exceeding national and international standards caused significant public and political problems for nuclear programs; for example, today, cleanup estimates for US-DOE SRS and Hanford sites alone total about $100 billion. To recover lost public trust in environmental cleanup and treatment of legacy wastes, government and civilian nuclear managers have reached out to stakeholders to improve decisions and make operations more transparent; to this end, US-DOE established Citizen Advisory Boards (CABs). In 2003, US-DOE evaluated its CABs but solely with interviews.