The Effects of procedure of the veil of ignorance on public acceptance for a NIMBY facility

Otomo, Shoji*; Hirose, Yukio*; Osawa, Hideaki  ; Onuma, Susumu*

This study examines the effects of public acceptance of the policy of waste disposal and procedure applying the veil of ignorance on public acceptance of the repository of high-level radioactive waste in Switzerland. Results show that evaluation of the policy promoted the public acceptance directly and moderated the effects of factors of fairness. And the study suggested that procedure applying the veil of ignorance is an important approach that improves the psychological process of people's perception of fairness and increases public acceptance of the repository.