Transparency of nuclear regulatory activities
Subtitle: workshop proceedings : Tokyo and Tokai-Mura, Japan, 22-24 May 2007.
Contributors: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.
Series: Nuclear regulation
Publisher: Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789264040953
Subjects: Nuclear energy -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.; Nuclear energy -- Public opinion -- Congresses.; Nuclear industry -- Safety measures -- Congresses.; Nuclear industry -- Decision making -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: One of the main missions of nuclear regulators is to protect the public, and this cannot be completely achieved without public confidence. The more a regulatory process is transparent, the more such confidence will grow. Despite important cultural differences across countries, a number of common features characterize media and public expectations regarding any activity with an associated risk. This workshop identified a common understanding of transparency and main stakeholders' expectations together with a number of conditions and practices aimed at improving the transparency of nuclear regulatory activities.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Organised in collaboration with the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organisation."

"NEA No. 6256."

Includes bibliographical references.

Available both in print and online.
Table of contents: title: Understanding transparency; title: Stakeholder expectations regarding transparency; title: Conditions for ensuring transparency; title: Changing regulatory practices for ensuring transparency; title: Methods for evaluating transparency.