Published 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Caution principle, nuclear energy and future

Description

It is historical way which the social and cultural conditions that legitimate the actions of the men in general and in particular the industrial and technological development of the civilizations. The societies go going by stages of growth that are characterized, among other aspects, for the positive valuation of those that assume risks, connoting these attitudes of heroic. Once gotten certain levels of well-being, in this civilizations spend to the situation of to conserve and to guarantee that gotten. In this development level, taking a risk passes of being heroic attitude to criminal, since it understands each other that it can get lost the previously acquired thing. Everything takes body in the norms of coexistence, included the collections in the laws, like it is the case of the principle of precaution, legal reflection of this situation in the western world. Societies that more than to conquer new development levels what it want is the one that already have to assure. (Author)

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Principio de precaucion, Energia Nuclear y futuro: de la Riesgofilia a la Reiesgofobia

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Espana (1996)
Journal Volume
244
Journal Page Range
p. 43-46
ISSN
1137-2885

INIS

Country of Publication
Spain
Country of Input or Organization
Spain
INIS RN
36004360
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Descriptors DEI
HAZARDS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PLANNING; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK ASSESSMENT
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY