DISTINGUISHING HUMAN RESPONSES TO RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES

摘要: Inherent in the revised emergency planning regulations recently issued by federal government is assumption that people will follow official protective action advisories during a nuclear reactor accident. In this paper authors argue an unrealistic and present empirical evidence which supports proposition radiological likely to give rise high degree of extreme public behavior. Their analyses indicate less than one-third households on Long Island are instructions event accident at Shoreham Nuclear Power Station. Among families who would not instructions, some underreact but most overreact. Perceived distance from plant age household head appear be strongest discriminators among those orders, underreact, Implications for preparedness response discussed. 71 references, 3 figures, 8 tables.