Abstract
In this paper, we examine how over the past twenty five years the nuclear industry has used various strategies to diminish or remove any environmental health risks that emanate from its practice and activities. Using both industry and critical website materials, we demonstrate how risk is removed by emphasizing its own safety culture in a complex process, its 'clean energy' credentials, its role in producing national energy options, close co-operation with its regulators, the ignorance of its critics, the suppression of opposing views and a narrowing risk assessment approach to potential environmental and health hazards. We suggest that the same strategies will be used after the recent Japanese nuclear disaster.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Environmental Health and Biomedicine |
| Publisher | WIT Press |
| Pages | 59-67 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Volume | 15 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781845645243 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 6th Int. Conf. on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health, and 9th Int. Conf. on Modelling in Medicine and Biology - Environmental Health Risk 2011, EHR 2011 - Riga, Latvia Duration: 25 Jul 2011 → 27 Jul 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | 6th Int. Conf. on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health, and 9th Int. Conf. on Modelling in Medicine and Biology - Environmental Health Risk 2011, EHR 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | Latvia |
| City | Riga |
| Period | 25/07/11 → 27/07/11 |
Keywords
- Branding
- Canada
- Elimination of risk
- Environmental health
- Narratives
- Nuclear industry
- Power generation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modelling and Simulation
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
