2021 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 13-27
Japan's Final Disposal Act, enacted in 2000, stipulated geological disposal for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), but the issue still attracts limited social interest. We asked why it is difficult to raise social interest in HLW geological disposal, and conducted a series of three community meetings between citizens and experts to measure changes in citizens' preferences with questionnaires. We analyzed the policy preferences of citizens in terms of the four factors of social acceptance (technical, institutional, market, community). Yamada et al. (2019) analyzed a one-way community meeting. The results show that citizens' policy preferences change is limited, and citizens' policy preferences is related not only to the technical factors but also to the social aspects such as institutional factors. In this article, we compared the series of three community meetings. The results show that technical and institutional factors were highly correlated with citizens' policy preferences, and the characteristics of related factors.
