Conditions for betterment of public acceptance

Sobajima, Makoto

Nuclear energy has a strong relation to a society. However, due to accidents and scandals having occurred in recent yeras, people's reliability to nuclear energy has significantly stryed and is becoming existence of a worry. Analyzing such a situation and grasping the problem contained are serious problems for people engagin in nuclear field. In order that nuclear enegry is properly used in society, communication with general public and in nuclear power plant site area are increasingly getting important as well as grasping the situation and surveying measures for ovecoming the problems. On the basis of such an analysis, various activities for betterment of public acceptance of nuclear energy by nuclear industry workers, researchers and the government are proposed.