원전 사고에 대한 재난 대비 수준 및 위험 인식에 영향을 미치는 요인

Abstract

When a nuclear accident occurs, measures to protect people residing around the nuclear power plant from released radioactive substances should be implemented. In order such measures to be effectively executed, residents should successfully perform actions requested by the response organizations. This research focus on disaster preparedness and risk perception for nuclear accidents, known to influence responding actions of people under disaster, and analyzed factors associated with them by questionnaire survey and the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. Results indicate that people having higher level of confidence in the disaster response organization and experienced education regarding nuclear emergency are likely to have higher level of preparedness. And the higher level of preparedness was associated with the lower level of risk perception on the negative impacts of the nuclear accident. Policy implications derived from such results were suggested to enhance the level of preparedness, which could be one of approaches to build foundations to efficiently respond to the nuclear accident.