Understanding the Societal Challenges Facing Nuclear Power Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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2015. "Design for Values in Nuclear Technology." In Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design, J
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The speakers were David Victor, University of California, San Diego; John Downer, University of Bristol; and Sarah Mills, University of Michigan. LESSONS FROM NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING David Victor, University of California, San Diego Victor shared lessons from his experience as chair of the volunteer community engagement panel that Southern California Edison set up for the decommissioning process for its San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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When a contractor irresponsibly handled a canister of spent fuel, the mistake set important community relationships back several steps, and repairing it required a total overhaul of communication strategies and an increased emphasis on operational excellence. A final lesson is the importance of strong engagement between plant operators, engagement panels, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
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This makes analogies between reactors and jetliners highly misleading. Making reactors as reliable as jetliners would require the nuclear industry to commit to a common reactor paradigm and a recursive learning pro cess, and to build and operate tens of thousands of identical reactors for decades (learning the lessons of hundreds of disasters)
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Mills noted that nuclear energy has certain advantages over renewables. For example, it requires less land and can be sited where power plants already exist, without significantly changing the overall landscape.
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Community engagement processes face a wide variety of different concerns throughout the lifespan of a project. Mills said the data suggests that procedural justice is more important than distributive justice in predicting a project's success or failure, although project acceptance can still be highly idiosyncratic by location.
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