Nuclear waste management in a globalised world
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Nuclear waste management in a globalised world
Routledge, 2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2011
"First issued in paperback" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue. For the next 100 years, the HLW will be subject to policy decisions and value assessments. Physically safe, technologically stable, and socio-economically sustainable HLW-management will top the agenda. That must be accomplished in a society whose segments are both stable and in a rapid state of flux, under the influence of global as well as national factors, private interests as well as the vagaries of national politics. Among the challenges to be faced is how to codify responsibilities of nuclear industry, governments and international organisations, and any adopted management policy must attain legitimacy at the local, national, regional and global levels. All such considerations raise questions about the practical and theoretical knowledge. This special issue book will address these questions by exploring HLW-management in Canada, France, Germany, India, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Special emphasis will be placed on highlighting national context, current trends and uncertainties, with relevance to a socially sustainable contemporary and future HLW-management.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Nuclear waste management in a globalised world Urban Strandberg and Mats Andren
2. Radwaste in Canada: a political economy of uncertainty Darrin Durant
3. Concerned public and the paralysis of decision-making: nuclear waste management policy in Germany Peter Hocke and Ortwin Renn
4. Framing nuclear waste as a political issue in France Yannick Barthe
5. Spent fuel management in India M.P. Ram Mohan and Veena Aggarwal
6. The Swedish KBS project: a last word in nuclear fuel safety prepares to conquer the world? Mark Elam and Goeran Sundqvist
7. Learning to listen: institutional change and legitimation in UK radioactive waste policy Gordon Mackerron and Frans Berkhout
8. High-level radioactive waste management in the USA Barry D. Solomon
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