Resilience : From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Entering into Resilience Faced with an Extreme Situation -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Nuclear Accident to Extreme Situation -- 3 Entry into Resilience: A Way to Cope with the Extreme Situation -- 4 Entry into Resilience and Time -- 5 Entry into Resilience and Space -- 6 Human and Organizational Factors of Entry into Resilience in an Organization -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- What are Damages in Nuclear Accidents? -- 2 Does the Concept of Loss Orient Risk Prevention Policy? -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Industrial Degradation, Causal Links and Preventive Maintenance -- 3 Loss, Damage and Victims -- 4 Assessment of Compensation: An Anthropological Approach -- 4.1 The Market Paradigm -- 4.2 The Gift Paradigm -- 4.3 Consequences for the Definition of the Concept of Loss -- 5 The Fukushima Daiichi Catastrophe as a Total Social Fact -- 6 A Choice of Paradigm? -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 How the Fukushima Daiichi Accident Changed (or not) the Nuclear Safety Fundamentals? -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Did not Change After Fukushima -- 3 What Changed After Fukushima -- 3.1 All-Hazards and Multiple Disasters -- 3.2 Administration of Emergency Response -- 4 Enhancing Resilience -- 5 Three Categories of Unsafe Events -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Consequences of Severe Nuclear Accidents on Social Regulations in Socio-Technical Organizations -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Major Industrial Accidents and Changing Paradigms -- 3 The Sociology of Organizations and at-Risk Industries -- 4 Following the Rules, Post-Accident -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Measurement of Damages -- 5 A Multiscale Bayesian Data Integration Approach for Mapping Radionuclide Contamination -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction.

2 Methodology -- 3 Demonstration -- 4 Summary and Future Work -- References -- 6 Challenges for Nuclear Safety from the Viewpoint of Natural Hazard Risk Management -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster and the Fukushima Daiichi NPP Accident -- 3 Challenges Identified in Light of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP Accident -- 3.1 Risks of Nuclear Power Plant Accidents -- 3.2 Risk-Informed Decision Making -- 3.3 Defense in Depth -- 3.4 Design Against External Hazards Such as Earthquakes -- 3.5 Accident Management -- 3.6 Regional Disaster Prevention/Mitigation -- 4 Resilience in the Field of Nuclear Safety Engineering -- 4.1 Resilience Engineering for Possible Future Nuclear Accident -- 4.2 Resilience Engineering for Integrated Risk-Informed Decision-Making Process -- 5 Summary -- References -- 7 The Economic Assessment of the Cost of Nuclear Accidents -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evaluating the Expected Cost of Nuclear Power -- 2.1 Limitations in Estimating the Probabilities of Nuclear Accidents -- 2.2 Nuclear Accident Are no Car Crashes -- 2.3 Perception of Probabilities -- 2.4 The Effects of Perception Biases on Nuclear Accidents -- 3 Economic Assessment of Nuclear Damage and Their Insights into Mitigation Policies -- 3.1 Existing Assessments of the Cost of a Nuclear Accident -- 3.2 The Assessments of the Costs of Other Hazards Exhibit Similar Discrepancies -- 4 Uncertainties and Mitigation Policies -- 4.1 Cost Assessments Do not Speak the Same Language -- 4.2 The Aftermath of a Nuclear Disaster: PSA or Past Events? -- 4.3 Converting Consequences into Costs Requires Various Hypotheses and Assessment Methodologies -- 4.4 Drawbacks -- 4.5 Cost Assessment Fails to Provide Guidelines into Mitigation Policies -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 8 Considering Nuclear Accident in Energy Modeling Analysis -- Abstract.

1 Introduction -- 2 Impact of Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Japanese Energy Market -- 2.1 Trend of Energy Mix After Fukushima -- 2.2 Energy Policy Overview in Japan Before and After Fukushima -- 3 Attempt for Energy Modeling Considering Nuclear Accident -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 9 Deprivation of Media Attention by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Comparison Between National and Local Newspapers -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Basic Description of the 3.11 Disasters -- 1.2 The Effect of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident -- 1.3 The 3.11 and Information Ecology -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Data Collection of National and Local Newspapers -- 2.2 Seeking Specific Keywords and Co-word Mapping Comparison Between National and Local Newspapers -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10 Development of a Knowledge Management System for Energy Driven by Public Feedback -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Functionalities of the Envisioned Platform -- 3 Evaluation Metrics -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Barriers Against Transition into Resilience -- 11 What Cultural Objects Say About Nuclear Accidents and Their Way of Depicting a Controversial Industry -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Representation, Controversy, and Cultural Objects -- 2.1 Social Representation -- 2.2 Socio-Technical Controversy -- 2.3 Cultural Objects -- 3 The Cultural Object in Representations of the Nuclear Sector -- 3.1 The Object as a Product -- 3.2 A Representational Crisis -- 3.3 The Object as Agent -- 3.4 The Value of the Cultural Object -- 4 The Representation of Fukushima in French Documentaries -- 4.1 The Space-Time of the Disaster -- 4.2 The Story of an Accident that Has no End -- 4.3 The Resilience of Civil Society: A New Representation of the Japanese Population -- 5 Conclusion -- References.

12 Why Is It so Difficult to Learn from Accidents? -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-Fukushima Accident Investigation and After -- 3 Untaken Responsibility: Unsuccessful Prosecution and Alternative Sanction by Tightened Regulation -- 4 Implications for "Resilience": Beyond Cultural Essentialism -- 5 An Idea of Remedy: Revisit the Origin of "Resilience" Concept -- 6 Concluding Remarks: At the Heart of Risk Governance -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13 Decision-Making in Extreme Situations Following the Fukushima Daiichi Accident -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fukushima Daiichi: Faulty Decision-Making? -- 3 Testing Decision Models Using the Fukushima Daiichi Accident -- 4 Decision Making and Catastrophe: Back from the Future and Return -- 5 From Decision Making to Taking Action in Extreme Situations -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 14 An Ethical Perspective on Extreme Situations and Nuclear Safety Preservation -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Management of Extreme Situations, Multiple Dilemmas -- 3 Ethics: Not Only a Way Out, but also a Way up -- 3.1 Voluntary Action and Decision-Making, the Ethical Way Out of Extreme Situations -- 3.2 "Safe Institutions" for the Management of Extreme Situations -- 4 To Conclude: Ethics, a Way up and Out of Extreme Situations, not a Set of Solutions -- References -- 15 Japan's Nuclear Imaginaries Before and After Fukushima: Visions of Science, Technology, and Society -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nuclear Imaginaries in Japan: At the Time of the 2011 Disaster in Fukushima -- 3 Historical Factors Behind the Pre-Fukushima Nuclear Imaginaries -- 4 Nuclear Imaginaries in Japan: After Fukushima -- 5 Conclusions: Toward Democratic Imaginaries -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 16 The Institute of Resilient Communities -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Resilience.

3 The Challenge Associated with Fukushima as Example -- 4 Combining Research, Education and Outreach, and Communities-The Institute for Resilient Communities -- 4.1 Outreach and Education-The Berkeley RadWatch and DoseNet Projects -- 4.2 Science and Technology-Assess, Predict, and Minimize the Impact of Radiological Contamination -- 4.3 Status and Path Forward -- 5 Summary -- References -- Students Contributions -- 17 Ground Motion Prediction for Regional Seismic Risk Analysis Including Nuclear Power Station -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Proposed Model to Simulate the Slip Distribution -- 3 Ground Motion Simulation Using Proposed Model -- 4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 18 Effects of Inelastic Neutron Scattering in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Devices -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Description of the Actual Work -- 3 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 19 The Account of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident by the Plant Manager: A Source to Study Engineering Thinking in Extreme Situations -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Accident Investigation Reports -- 2.1 Description of the Institutional Report -- 2.2 The Accident According to the Reports -- 3 The Importance of Yoshida's Testimony -- 3.1 The Yoshida Testimony: A Narrative of the Accident -- 3.2 The Disclosures of the Manager -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 20 On Safety Management Devices: Injunction and Order Use in Emergency Situation -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Safety Management Devices Definition -- 2.1 What Is Injunction? -- 2.2 What Is Order? -- 3 Safety Management Devices Contribution to System Recovery -- 3.1 Crisis Organization Context -- 3.2 Recovering with Injunction and Order Use -- 4 Results -- 5 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 21 The Water Neutron Detector -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background.

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