Community Involvement – An Engineering and Project Management Perspective on How to Use the Ongoing Social Science Research

Social Scientists such as Hank Jenkins-Smith from the University of Oklahoma have suggested that the structured evaluation of beliefs and preferences measured in annual survey and social media data streams can assist program managers in making nuclear facility siting programs responsive and adaptive to the evolution of nuclear narratives. This presentation will provide an engineering and project management perspective on how ongoing social science research can be used. Topics to be covered include the iterative process for including stakeholder preferences in waste management system functions and requirements and project plans through the development of design concepts, alternatives analyses, trade studies, and project planning and how the technical information can be provided back to stakeholders through communications products for further refinement of preferences.