Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach
Media discourse and public opinion are treated as two parallel systems of constructing meaning. This paper explores their relationship by analyzing the discourse on nuclear power in four general audience media: television news coverage, newsmagazine accounts, editorial cartoons, and syndicated opinion columns. The analysis traces the careers of different interpretive packages on nuclear power from 1945 to the present. This media discourse, it is argued, is an essential context for understanding the formation of public opinion on nuclear power.[1]
Nuclear Power Reactors: A Study in Technological Lock-in
Recent theory has predicted that if competing technologies operate under dynamic increasing returns, one, possibly inferior, technology will dominate the market. The history of nuclear power technology is used to illustrate these results. Light water is considered inferior to other technologies, yet it dominates the market for power reactors. This is largely due to the early adoption and heavy development by the U.S. Navy of light water for submarine propulsion. When a market for civilian power emerged, light water had a large head start, and by the time other technologies were ready to enter the market, light water was entrenched. [2]
Assessing safety culture in nuclear power stations
Definitions of safety culture abound, but they variously refer to the safety-related values, attitudes, beliefs, risk perceptions and behaviours of all employees. This assembly may seem too inclusive to be meaningful, but each represents a different level of processing and the choice for measurement (or intervention) is more pragmatic than theoretical. [3]
Nuclear Power Project Management Confidence with Cultural Science Thailand
More than 7 billion people live on Earth which involves a multidimensional activity encompassing environmental pollution, energy and climate. Energy therefore is an important part of life and is an indicator of the direction in developing countries. So the future direction of the energy in Thailand and neighboring countries in Asia were considered.[4]
The Prospect of Nuclear Power after Fukushima Daiichi Accident in an Emerging Global Energy Crises
The purpose of this paper is to review the effect of Fukushima Daiichi accident on world nuclear power and the progressive growth the industrial had enjoyed from April, 2011 till January, 2015. The paper specifically considers the new reactors connected to the grid within the period, the ongoing constructions of new power plants worldwide licenced after the accident and stringent safety measures taken by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to routinely check the existing reactors and incorporate during the design of new one in a bit to forestall future occurrences. [5]
Reference
[1] Gamson, W.A. and Modigliani, A., 1989. Media discourse and public opinion on nuclear power: A constructionist approach. American journal of sociology, 95(1), pp.1-37.
[2] Lee, T. and Harrison, K., 2000. Assessing safety culture in nuclear power stations. Safety science, 34(1-3), pp.61-97.
[3] Lee, T. and Harrison, K., 2000. Assessing safety culture in nuclear power stations. Safety science, 34(1-3), pp.61-97.
[4] Wongkhamton, D., 2014. Nuclear Power Project Management Confidence with Cultural Science Thailand. Advances in Research, pp.354-366.
[5] Igwesi, D.I., 2015. The Prospect of Nuclear Power after Fukushima Daiichi Accident in an Emerging Global Energy Crises. Physical Science International Journal, pp.1-10.