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... Second, it unfairly assumes the public is irrational. People are more accepting of aviation than nuclear energy not because airlines have better messaging, but because aviation meets an implicit social contract, wherein jetliners fail no more frequently than regulators promise, and they do not fail twice for the same designrelated reason.
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... Downer added that the nuclear industry tends to construe the goal of public engagement not in terms of transparently and democratically informing the public, but in terms of gaining their agreement. If the nuclear industry were completely transparent in its engagement, he posited that the public would likely choose another option, if only because, irrespective of its contested safety, it is still extremely expensive.


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