Japanese Journal of Risk Analysis
Online ISSN : 2185-4548
Print ISSN : 0915-5465
ISSN-L : 0915-5465
The Great East Japan Earthquake Session Reviews
Considerations on Low Probability High Consequence Risk Event
Akihiro TOKAI
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2011 Volume 21 Issue 4 Pages 249-252

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In this paper, I summarized the viewpoint of low probability high consequence risk to large scale complex disasters. Based on the framework of risk comparison, chemical substance, natural disasters and nuclear power generation were tabulated from the viewpoint of key concept of risk analysis. Then I summarized the characteristics of risk perception for these technologies and finally I discussed the requisites of the capacity building for handling these types of risks.
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