The 1st JHPS International Special Session, Sendai, Japan

Current status and future forimproving accident communication
with the public in China
On behalf of CSRP
Zhi Zengzengzhi@Tsinghua.edu.cn
2019/12/05

OUTLINE
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Current status and challenges

II. Efforts made by China Society of Radiation Protection(CSRP)
III. Future

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/1<Current status• Nuclear power industry development:• Operation: 47 units,• On building:11 units• In planning: 15 units• lies in Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang,Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi
and Hainan Provinces.

• With the development of the use ofnuclear energy, more and more
people have access to nuclear
knowledge.

Fear of nuclear• The fear comes from:• Nuclear is mysterious-> its
military application;• Nuclear is terrible -> atomic
bomb, nuclear incident;• Nuclear is complexity->decay,fusion, what it mean!

• For public, NOT necessary toknow it, just escape from it!

Investigation of nuclear attitude• An investigation on Public awareness and acceptance of nuclear-related projects weredone during Nov. 2017 to Apr. 2018 throughout 3367 persons in 31 province byCentre for Publicity and Education, Ministry of Environmental Protection by phonecall:• some misunderstanding and knowledge blind spot about nuclear knowledge andthe basic situation of nuclear power development.
• Most trusted propaganda subjects is nuclear experts, government andenvironment organization; low trust subjects is nuclear enterprise, public media• Happy to learn nuclear knowledge propaganda;• More than a half support for development of NPP, just 1/10 opposing. BUT, only
less than 20% support for build a NPP near their residence.

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/1<College Student Competition• CSRP host college student competition Nuclear plus X each year in different university
since 2016. In 2019, students come from 30 university attend this competition.
• In the competition, a team of nuclear-related major undergraduates plus a nonnuclear major undergraduates to create popular science artworks, such as video,presentation documents, webpages.
• All the award artworks collected in webpage: http://www.csrp.org.cn/kphd

Monographs translation
RADIATION
EFFECTS and SOURCES

What is radiation?
What does radiation do to us?
Where does radiation come from?

United Nations Environment Programme• Radiation Effects and Sources issued by the United Nations Environment
ProgrammeUNEP were translated into Chinese and released to thepublic by CSRPEdit and revision of Baidu wiki• Baidu wiki, the most popular wiki used by Chinese, is an important sources ofnuclear-related knowledge; But some entry related to nuclear is not exact right,sometimes something is wrong in the text.
• A workgroup were setup in 2019 by CSRP to edit and revision the entry related toradiation protection. Provide a right and clear entry is our duty!

Social software attempt• Public communication account of CSRP in WeChat was followed by total
4424 person, and until Nov. 2019 total readings achieved to 59710.

Forum on Radiation, Impactand Public awareness• On Jun. 20-23, 2018, 16th early 21st Century Radiation Protection Forum - radiation,
impact and public seminar was held in Xiamen.
• 248 experts and scholars from the nuclear and radiation, public information andcommunication and related radiation security sectors were invited to conduct various
exchanges and sharing in the form of general assembly reports, poster displays and otherissues, in response to radiation and its effects, as well as public awareness.

Forum on Nuclear Culture and PublicCommunication• On Dec. 15, 2018, the Forum on Advanced Nuclear Technology Applications and Nuclear Culture and Public
Communication, were successfully held at the Future Science and Technology Experience Museum of the Tsinghua
Straits Academy.
• More than 130 people involve many well-known academic scholars, authoritative experts, media and science workers
participated the forum to discuss nuclear energy and nuclear safety, as well as concern for nuclear culture andcommunication with the public.

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/1<III. FutureSummary• College Student Competition: strength the power of young• Monographs translation: strength the power of knowledge• Wiki edition: strength the power of authority• Social software media: strength the power of society• Forum on public communication: strength the power of experts

The road is under our feet!

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