%A"Wynne, B [Lancaster Univ. (UK). School of Independent Studies]" %D1983 %I; %2 %J[] %K29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY, NUCLEAR POWER, RISK ASSESSMENT, HAZARDS, HUMAN FACTORS, ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS, ORGANIZING, PUBLIC RELATIONS, REACTOR ACCIDENTS, SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS, SOCIOLOGY, THREE MILE ISLAND-2 REACTOR, UNITED KINGDOM, ACCIDENTS, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EUROPE, INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS, POWER, POWER REACTORS, PWR TYPE REACTORS, REACTORS, THERMAL REACTORS, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WATER MODERATED REACTORS, WESTERN EUROPE, 290600* - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy %PMedium: X; Size: Pages: 13-32 %TRedefining the issues of risk and public acceptance. The social viability of technology %XA conceptual framework is proposed within which the notion of risk as normally used in risk assessment (RA) could be enlarged in line with the real substance of social issues of technology policy, to help avoid RA's threatened irrelevance to social decision making. It is argued that the frequent organizational incoherence and thus the unviability of modern technology arises from 'social alienation' between the innovation-commitment phase and the implementation of the technology in society. The roles of technical elites and of particular concepts of technology in this alienation are emphasized. One of the case studies deals with 'Nuclear power - myths of scientific and organizational realism' and discusses the UK nuclear 'programme' and the Three Mile Island accident. %0Journal Article %N;Journal ID: CODEN: FUTUB %1 %CUnited Kingdom %Rhttps://doi.org/ Journal ID: CODEN: FUTUB HEDB %GEnglish