Environmental Justice and Nuclear Accidents: The Case of Chernobyl Disaster

Nuclear energy is one of the most important components world electricity supply in today's world. It provides approximately 21% OECD countries. However, there has been a growing social and academic debate over use nuclear because fact that have serious incidents accidents at power stations indicates security risk associated with NPPs not low. Particularly major accidents, Fukushima Chernobyl, can cause release radiation into environment. environmental contamination shared equally among people which triggers injustice issues. There no comprehensive research investigates from perspective justice theory so far. The main purpose this study to argue whether or injustice. results show accident, caused distributive intergenerational