Nuclear Power Public Communication and Local Cultural Integration Practice

Abstract

As a safe, economical and clean energy, nuclear power could be developed on a large scale to replace coal power, which has a very important practical significance to vigorously developing nuclear power in China. With the continual development of nuclear power and the everlasting deepening of China’s democratization process, the public participation has become an important part of the assessment of nuclear power’s environmental impact, and the low acceptance of residents has also become one of the most important issues faced by the many countries in developing nuclear power. Xu Dabao nuclear power plant is a newly developed site after the Fukushima event, and one of its owner units—Liaoning Nuclear Power Co., Ltd has gradually formed a nuclear power science popularization culture with northeast local features under the governmental leadership since its establishment. In recent years, Liaoning Nuclear Power Co., Ltd has been continuously integrating the nuclear power public communication into the local cultural development and has achieved significant results by constantly exploring methods and innovating practices. This paper aims to summarize and refine experiences in Liaoning Nuclear Power Co., Ltd’s practices of nuclear power public communication with local cultural characteristics, in order to provide new nuclear power plant construction with a reference for public communications.