How can we improve public communication efforts about the benefits of nuclear power?
Comments The communication and public perception sessions consisted of a number of interesting papers on different subjects, and sometimes surprising ways of presenting them. A paper from Hungary was given by a high school science teacher and his pupil in a question and answer style, and demonstrated the importance of experiment as opposed to simulation through a school project on in-house radon levels. Some papers covered a quite new and/or unexpected subject. To most participants, the topic of improving public acceptance through memetic engineering, presented in a Canadian paper, was a completely new approach. The French approach to transparency by creating an internet site with webcams was also considered an unexpected way to say “we have nothing to hide”. In the question and answer session afterwards, some members in the audience had some new information to share, especially on the Tokaimura accident. However, the most controversial and to the audience certainly most surprising pre
