Risk Communication for Stakeholders Making Decisions about the Energy Future with Atomic Power (2)

Abstract

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been promoting risk communication by heeding the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. Based on the assumption that there is no such thing as absolute nuclear safety, risk communicators have been appointed to coordinate specific measures with the Social Communication Office established in the company. Both in coordination with each other are assigned to cultivate the social sensitivity of the Nuclear Power Department and the company as a whole to ensure that their way of thinking and criteria for judging are not out of touch with the rest of society. This commentary presents a series of dialogues that have been pursued with communities in Fukushima and Niigata.