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Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris: Answering Questions Without Questioning Answers

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Title: Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris: Answering Questions Without Questioning Answers
Authors: Nagashima, Miori Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Williamson, Piers R. Browse this author
Keywords: risk
risk communication
radioactive debris disposal
Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Issue Date: 6-Jun-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Journal Title: Social Science Japan Journal
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
Start Page: 163
End Page: 181
Publisher DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyx009
Abstract: Between 2011 and 2014, the Japanese government conducted a 'wide-area processing' scheme to dispose of radioactive debris from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The scheme was designed to hasten recovery in those areas by disposing of radioactive debris in other regions. Although 'wide-area processing' was open to localities in all 47 prefectures, only 18 participated. Out of the 18 participants, nine explained their involvement to residents in Question and Answer (Q&A) sections posted on their homepages. This article examines those nine Q&As from the perspective of risk communication. It holds that different risk perceptions were held by localities on the one hand, and residents on the other. While the Q&As ostensibly represented a wider shift from a 'deficit model' of risk communication to a 'democratic model', they nonetheless operated hierarchically through the construction of 'ambiguous risks' as 'simple risks' to neglect the 'concern assessment' advocated by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). As such, the Q&As were employed as a moral technique to discipline local populations into accepting the radiation risks generated by the national government's approach to reconstruction.
Rights: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Social Science Japan Journal following peer review. The version of record [Miori NAGASHIMA, Piers R WILLIAMSON; Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris: Answering Questions Without Questioning Answers, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1 August 2017, Pages 163–181] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyx009.
Type: article (author version)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/74569
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