TRANSPARENCY AND DIALOGUE: KEYWORDS FOR GLOBAL ACCEPTANCE OF NUCLEAR TRANSPORTS

Nuclear issues very scarcely leave the public unmoved. The current economic and environmental context and the media will certainly bring back the subject on nuclear in the near future and this is not a bad thing. Indeed, the current problem of energy supply - in California for example - and the world climate change are two major questions likely to revive the debate on the future role of nuclear energy. However, the fact that radioactivity is invisible, untouchable, abstract… keeps alive the fear generated by the nuclear technology, a technology that is not familiar to the public and was not revealed to him through Marie Curie's work but by Hiroshima and Chernobyl. In the nuclear transport area, like in others, from the standpoint of communication, we have to work in this context.