Accidents in the Civil Nuclear Sector and their Impact on Society | Les accidents dans le secteur nucléaire civil et leur impact sur la société
2025
O’connor, Martin | Douguet, Jean-Marc | Association ePLANETe.blue (ePLANETe.Blue) | Ecologie, Société et Evolution (ex-Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution) (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Université Paris-Saclay | ANR-11-RSNR-0002,AMORAD,AMORAD1(2011)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. This chapter addresses the topic of accidents in the peacetime nuclear energy sector, as a case study in risk governance. We adopt a perspective in the risk analysis literature known as Post-Normal Science, which invites us to focus attention on questions of the quality of knowledge claims as a question of their fitness for purpose in situations where “facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes are high and decisions urgent”.Starting from the question of methods and practices for the assessment (ex post and ex ante) of societal impacts of nuclear accidents, we also ask, reflexively, what are the impacts on society of the assessment of civil nuclear accidents? More particularly, what are the lessons for science practice and for our vision of science contributions to risk governance, that we can take from the experiences to date of scientists and wider civil society in this domain?The chapter is structured in two main parts, respectively methodological (Part I) and empirical (Part II).That said, our approach will be dialectical, moving in a cyclical fashion between theoretical, methodological, and empirical considerations. In a short concluding discussion (Part III), we bring together some of the key strands of our argument.
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