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Space Nuclear Power Public and Stakeholder Risk CommunicationThe 1986 Challenger accident coupled with the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident increased public concern about the safety of spacecraft using nuclear technology. While three nuclear powered spacecraft had been launched before 1986 with little public interest, future nuclear powered missions would see significantly more public concern and require NASA to increase its efforts to communicate mission risks to the public. In 1987 a separate risk communication area within the Launch Approval Planning Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was created to address public concern about the health, environmental, and safety risks of NASA missions. The lessons learned from the risk communication strategies developed for the nuclear powered Galileo, Ulysses, and Cassini missions are reviewed in this paper and recommendations are given as to how these lessons can be applied to future NASA missions that may use nuclear power systems and other potentially controversial NASA missions.
Document ID
20060050329
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Dawson, Sandra M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sklar, Maria
(Aerospace Corp. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Subject Category
Space Transportation And Safety
Meeting Information
Meeting: American Nuclear Society, San Diego, California, June 05, 2005
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: June 5, 2005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Galileo
risk communications
Ulysses
Cassini

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