Risk communication in nuclear-power disasters: Reconstruction of the model based on contents analyses and experiments

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530800
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto Koka Women's University
• Principal Investigator: TAKENISHI Masanori 京都光華女子大学, 健康科学部, 教授 (60216926)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKENISHI Ako 兵庫教育大学大学院, 学校教育研究科, 教授 (20289010) ; KANAGAWA Chie 追手門学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (70194884) ; HARADA Akira 追手門学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (10263336)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: リスクコミュニケーション / メッセージ / コンテンツ分析 / 福島 / 原子力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the information provided for the people by the Government and Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO) during the Fukushima accident, based on the model of fair risk communication. We analyzed the contents of the Governmental press conferences, and the ones of TEPCO’s press releases, held in a month from May 12 in 2011. The results revealed that the Governmental contents consisted of 57.6% for conveying-facts, 28.7% for considering-people, and 13.7% for repetitious-information. While, 72% of the TEPCO’s contents were repetitious. Though both administrators intended to convey the accurate facts and the truth, their contents were luck of reason or explanation.

Free Research Field

社会心理学