atw - International Journal for Nuclear Power | 04.2019

atw Vol. 64 (2019) | Issue 4 ı April
account belonging to the group of
stakeholders or other features. We
illustrate differences in the per ception
of nuclear energy and nuclear facility
on the case of the statement 11: “NPP
influences the higher quality of life in
the local community.”. In Figure 2
we see higher agreement among the
respondents living closer to the
nuclear facility, among the political
public, journalists and suppliers.
There is also important share of those
who do not have an opinion on presented
issue (undecided).
Respecting interests of NPPs’
stakeholders
Representatives of NPPs have expressed
high level of agreement with
the four statements that describe the
principle of respecting the interests of
their stakeholders (Figure 3). With
the Mann-Whitney test, we confirmed
that there were no statistically significant
differences in responses of
owners nor operators. The same was
confirmed taking into account the
function in the organization – the
Kruskal- Wallis test proved no statistical
significance in any case.
4 Discussion
The NPPs shape the environment in
which they are located and affect lives
of their external stakeholders. They
all want to promote their interests,
expectations and live a quality life.
Respecting the interests of external
stake holders of the NPPs is an important
principle of social responsibility,
and it was proved within the research
| | Fig. 3.
Level of agreement of NPPs’ representatives with statements related to stakeholders.
that NPPs are aware of it. We have
demonstrated that it affects the
acceptability of the NPPs in the society
and the quality of coexistence.
Successful organizations, and
NPPs strive to be among them, differ
from others by their exceptional
ability to quickly detect and effectively
adapt to changes in an unpredictable
environment. The appropriate strategy
for involvement of stakeholders
in strategic decisions of the NPPs
should be set up and implemented.
This is a pre requisite for the placement
of the NPPs in the environment,
its operation and coexistence. The
target groups with which trust is
particularly needed are local communities
(surrounding and more distant),
NGOs, political public, NPPs’
suppliers and journalists. These external
stakeholders groups differ according
to the understanding of nuclear
technology, interests and impacts on
the NPPs, what effective strategy of
NPPs must take into account. Our
research demonstrated that a certain
proportion of external stakeholders of
NPP in Slovenia still not have clear
understanding of the functions, influences
and many other issues related to
nuclear energy. This is an important
challenge for owners and operators of
NPPs that want to achieve confidence
and acceptance.
Coexistence with NPPs depends on
trust of stake holders into the NPP, the
perception of their quality of life, the
awareness of the impacts on coexistence,
and the willingness to respect
the interests of stakeholders of NPPs,
which the power plant should implement
with socially responsible practices.
The optimal model of involving
external stakeholders in the operation
of the NPPs is the one that establishes
the quality coexistence of the nuclear
facility and its external stakeholders.
We have proven that coexistence with
the NPPs positively affects quality of
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| | Fig. 4.
Optimal model for the involvement of external stakeholders.
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Successful Co-Existance of Nuclear Power Plants with Their External Stakeholders ı Milan Simončič and Gordana Žurga