RAPID Proposal: The Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

快速提案：福岛核灾难的影响

• 批准号: 1138296
• 负责人: John Besley
• 金额: $ 4.29万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138296&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Proposal; Impact; Fukushima; Nuclear

This work assesses the impact of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster on Americans' views about the fairness of decision makers and their willingness to accept nuclear power decision making. The project focuses on the degree to which such views are associated with attention to media coverage of the Fukushima incident. The research involves a survey of respondents who previously participated in polls about nuclear power in March 2010 and then again during the late summer of 2010. This second poll took place just after the massive oil spill that originated with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. An additional sample of respondents will be added to the original panel to obtain a final sample size of 800 participants to enable future research. The use of a partial panel design provides a unique capacity to understand the reasons for any changes in attitudes about nuclear power that occurred because of the Fukushima disaster. The participants in the surveys are being drawn from an academic-quality, probability-based online panel. In addition to the issue-specific value of knowing more about nuclear power perceptions, the research addresses several questions of relevance to risk communication researchers in the area of media effects and the role of fairness perceptions on views about technology. In doing so, the proposed research will integrate theory from past media effects research into the sub-field of risk communication.This RAPID proposal fulfills the NSF RAPID funding criterion of the need for urgent support as well as the other funding criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts. NSF reviewed this proposal internally.

这项工作评估了福岛核电站灾难对美国人关于决策者公平性的看法以及他们接受核电决策的意愿的影响。该项目的重点是这些观点与媒体对福岛事件报道的关注程度相关。该研究对之前在 2010 年 3 月和 2010 年夏末参加过核电民意调查的受访者进行了调查。第二次民意调查是在深水地平线石油钻探爆炸引发的大规模漏油事件发生后不久进行的。墨西哥湾平台。将在原始小组中添加额外的受访者样本，以获得 800 名参与者的最终样本量，以便进行未来的研究。部分面板设计的使用提供了一种独特的能力，可以了解福岛灾难导致人们对核电的态度发生任何变化的原因。调查的参与者是从具有学术质量、基于概率的在线小组中抽取的。除了更多地了解核电认知的特定问题价值之外，该研究还解决了媒体效应和公平认知对技术观点的作用等与风险传播研究人员相关的几个问题。在此过程中，拟议的研究将把过去媒体效应研究的理论整合到风险沟通的子领域中。该 RAPID 提案满足了 NSF RAPID 需要紧急支持的资助标准以及智力价值和其他资助标准。更广泛的影响。 NSF 内部审查了该提案。