{"id":1077,"date":"2013-09-10T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2013-09-10T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:27:27","slug":"disowning-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Disowning Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fukushima_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1080 aligncenter\" alt=\"fukushima_01\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fukushima_01.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fukushima_01.jpg 697w, https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fukushima_01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All \u00a0policymaking about nuclear power &#8212; every cost\/benefit analysis, every regulatory decision, every discussion about risk &#8212; is framed in some way by a quantitative reliability assessment. Such assessments are invested with all the authority that &#8216;science&#8217; and &#8216;calculation&#8217; wield over &#8216;mere judgement&#8217;. And given the irrefutably exorbitant\u00a0costs (human, financial and environmental)\u00a0of rector meltdowns, it is clear that policymakers would struggle rationalize nuclear energy without them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what happens when an event like Fukushima seems to undermine that authority? How do the many institutions vested in nuclear energy shore-up public faith in an assessment practice that appears to have failed? This is a question I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for a while now. Listen <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/disastercast.co.uk\/episode-15-disowning-fukushima\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0for some broad thoughts, or follow <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/4091075\/Disowning_Fukushima_Managing_the_credibility_of_nuclear_reliability_assessment_in_the_wake_of_disaster\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the much more in-depth journal article (assuming you can navigate the paywall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All \u00a0policymaking about nuclear power &#8212; every cost\/benefit analysis, every regulatory decision, every discussion about risk &#8212; is framed in some way by a quantitative reliability assessment. Such assessments are invested with all the authority that &#8216;science&#8217; and &#8216;calculation&#8217; wield over &#8216;mere judgement&#8217;. And given the irrefutably exorbitant\u00a0costs (human, financial and environmental)\u00a0of rector meltdowns, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,50,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fukushima","category-john","category-nuclear-energy-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3CaZH-hn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}