Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Science, Technology and Society
Reader 1
Nancy Scott Burke Williams
Reader 2
Brian L. Keeley
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© 2017 Kayon K James
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is the examination of previous STS-based frameworks for rational risk evaluation and the role of Fukushima residents as co-creators of new technical codes in safety and risk. To accomplish this task, the causes of nuclear refugees’ uncertainty and distrust towards the industry and the applicability of frameworks for scientific proceduralism and democratic rationalization by Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Andrew Feenberg to this issue will be discussed.
Recommended Citation
James, Kayon K., "Nuclear Risk and Rationality: Reevaluating Rational Decision Making through the Lens of Tohoku’s Nuclear Evacuees" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 1029.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1029
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
