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Abstract

Prior investigations indicated that Malaysian radiation and nuclear emergency plan stakeholders were not satisfied of having two-quarter of organizational issues in organizing and managing the indicated disaster scenario. Therefore, any organizational enhancement and improvement along the current radiation and nuclear emergency plan will give a positive and immediate impact on the public acceptance of the localized nuclear power program implementations. The policies and procedure issues must not be considered lightly because it may affect public adoption even though the nation has compromised on it for social and economic development. Moreover, any defect in the managerial and organizational structure might be a hindrance to the nuclear safety regulatory assurance. The structure of the respective emergency planning framework had to be tested and validated thoroughly in a structured manner to overcome this problem. This study proposed a hypothesis to build a current regulatory framework through empirical interpretive case study and computer simulation development. The hypothesis of the research framework was found to be useful and significantly accepted as it is interdependent and correlated with statistical measures and supported with the demonstrations of the agent based social simulation prototype. It has the potential to develop a structured and thorough emergency planning framework by interpreting and integrating mixed-method analyses and models through information systems theoretical lenses. Most probably, future works may imply them as strategized, condensed, concise, and comprehensive public disaster preparedness and response guidelines, and to be physically deemed as a useful and effective computer simulation.