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This paper discusses our project under a three-year research contract with the Japanese Government to gain public acceptance of nuclear facilities in local communities by improving risk communication through a gaming/simulation approach. Evidence suggests that nuclear public education programs are not communicating the critical safety information necessary to eliminate anxiety of people living around nuclear facilities. To most utilities and government, risk communication means persuasion. Based on the findings of our visits to several authorities, municipalities and nuclear facilities in Japan, Sweden, Norway and USA, we built a causal-loop model regarding nuclear risk communication. According to our model, the root cause of the problem is lack of trust, and the leverages are public participation and transparency which can create learner-centered two-way communication environment. THE TREASURE HUNTING, one of our five gaming/simulations for this project, is intended to create such an environment so that local residents may deepen understanding of nuclear risk and build up a mutual trust relationship with disaster prevention experts. After many internal test runs, we have run this exercise six times so far with the nuclear disaster prevention experts and the local residents near nuclear facilities in various parts of Japan. The results have been quite satisfactory.
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