Consequences of Severe Nuclear Accidents on Social Regulations in Socio-Technical Organizations

Christophe Martin (1)

1 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises

Major nuclear accidents have generated an abundant literature in the social sciences. They are the source of many key concepts that have led to studies of the organization and its links to system safety. Social psychology and sociology have shown that such bodies have their own modes of organization; while resilience engineering has hypothesized that they have the capacity to learn from the past and anticipate potential causes of serious damage. This paper revisits some major contemporary accidents, notably the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, through an analysis of the resilience capacity of systems in terms of the sociology of organizations and especially, social regulation.

Mots clés: Industrial disaster; Social regulation; Resilience engineering; Negotiation; Independence

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Gestion des risques et des crises

Christophe Martin. Consequences of Severe Nuclear Accidents on Social Regulations in Socio-Technical Organizations. Prof. Dr. Joonhong Ahn, Prof. Dr. Franck Guarnieri, Prof. Dr. Kazuo Furuta. Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety. From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations , Springer International Publishing - Available under Open Access, pp.47-54, 2017, Print ISBN 978-3-319-58767-7 Online ISBN 978-3-319-58768-4. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-58768-4_4⟩. ⟨hal-01574800⟩