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Introduction and Background
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... According to the 1989 NRC report Improving Risk Communication, risk communication "can be considered successful only to the extent that it, first, improves or increases the base of accurate information used by decision makers, be they government officials, industry managers, or individual citizens and, second, satisfies those involved that they are adequately informed within the limits of available knowledge" (National Research Council, 1989, p.
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