The public perception of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents clearly shows the insufficient information of people on radiation hazards attributed to radionuclides releases.
After these disasters, experience shows that increasingly people only trust information they can actually understand. Thus it is important to provide them with meaningful information about nuclear hazard and build their own capacity to analyse risk. Following that line the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement of the Council of Europe developed a new publication on “Basic Knowledge on Nuclear Hazard : the lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima” which has been translated into 10 languages. During this project, proposals were developed to improve the structure of the regional seminars about this publication and organised workshops in several member states to disseminate knowledge.
Organisation of regional seminars for trainers, national and regional authorities, journalists, decision makers and others in Russia (in Russian), Morocco (in Arabian), San-Marino (in English)
Organisation of national seminars in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine for national and regional authorities, journalists, decision makers and others
Development of a tool for disseminating basic knowledge about nuclear hazards in member states
Development of proposals to improve the structure of the regional seminars for better informing the population in case of nuclear or radiological accidents
Development of proposals to improve the structure of the regional seminars for better informing the population in case of nuclear or radiological accidents
Report on the regional seminar in Russian to diffuse nuclear safety knowledge among concerned actors and comments
Report on the regional seminar in English to diffuse nuclear safety knowledge among concerned actors and comments
Report on the regional seminar in Arabian to diffuse nuclear safety knowledge among concerned actors and comments