1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Wedekind, L. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria))
For the world's nuclear industries, the early 1990s could be the bridge that takes them from one generation of technology and public communication into the next. The most important condition needed to gain and retain public acceptance for any evolution of nuclear technology is
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Chaussade, J.P. (Electricite de France (EDF), 75 - Paris (France))
Today in France there are 54 nuclear power units in operation at 18 sites. They supply 75% of all electricity produced, 12% of which is exported to neighbouring countries, and play an important role in the French economy. For the French, nuclear power is a fact of life, and most
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Izumi Wada (Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (Japan))
One of Japan's major utilities, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc., owns three nuclear power stations and each of them has an attached service centre designed to help the general public develop a better understanding of nuclear energy production
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by KunMo Chung (Atomic Energy Commission (Republic of Korea))
For the Republic of Korea, nuclear power is an absolute necessity, not an alternative. At the end of 1989, total installed electric capacity was 20,990 MWe, with fossil fuel-fired power accounting for 53.6%, nuclear 36.3%, and hydro power 11.1%. Currently, the Republic of Korea
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Aduss, E.L.; Bisconti, A.S. (USCEA, Washington, DC (USA))
Advertising is one component of the US nuclear industry's co-ordinated communications programme aimed at assuring an understanding of nuclear energy's role and benefits. This communication programme, conducted by the US Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA), includes many media
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Bryant, P. (USCEA, Washington, DC (USA))
INFOWIRE is an early warning news wire service designed, operated, and written specifically for nuclear communicators. Based in Washington, DC, at the US Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA), INFOWIRE currently serves 104 subscribers in 16 countries
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Romanov, V.S. (Central Scientific Research Inst. for Information and Technical and Economic Research in the Field of Atomic Science and Technology, Moscow (USSR))
Public information centres are part of new Soviet initiatives in order to provide public organizations and the public at large, through the mass media, with objective information on the status and prospects of nuclear power, covering problems such as safety and ecology
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by American Medical Association, Chicago, IL (USA)
Is generating electricity with nuclear power safe in the United States? Could the explosion of a nuclear power reactor cause widespread dissemination of radioactivity, as the Chernobyl explosion did in 1986? How do power reactors operate, and what principles safeguard their
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Ray, D.L
A missinformed or uninformed public can stop anything even when it is clearly in society's benefit and the public will remain uninformed and uneducated in science until the media professionals decide otherwise, until they stop quoting charlatans and quacks, and until respected
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1990 - Volume 32, Issue 2 | by Jerome, F. (Scientists' Inst. for Public Information, New York, NY (USA))
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident in 1979 led to the establishment of the Media Resource Service (MRS), which puts journalists in touch with scientists by telephone to help the press meet the public's need to understand science and technology. The Chernobyl nuclear
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