Multiple Choice
The decision to shut down nuclear reactors in Germany because of the Fukushima disaster is an example of
A) how objective risk and subjective risk may diverge.
B) the difficulty of informing the public of risk.
C) precautionary action that did not satisfy the criteria of the precautionary principle.
D) All of the above
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