The Preparation of an Enhancing Model for Nuclear Risk Communication

When government or regulatory agencies must decide whether to license nuclear power plants despite extremely low probability of pipe rupture in a future accident, democratic societies are faced with difficult choices. The usual decision-making processes of consensus or social acceptability are insufficient to resolve such issues of modern technology, as denoted by CRPC. In the past, only a few experts possessed the best information available to accurately estimate the extent of the possible harm or the likelihood of its occurrence. However, while great weight needs to be given to these experts' decisions, democratic principles require that the decisions be controlled by non-specialists, including NGO, who are answerable to the public. It is also necessary to identify various promoting and/or limiting factors in the communication process which primarily occurs among the receivers related with the process