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The Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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The Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, 5
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This book explores the dilemma of siting a high-level nuclear waste
(HLNW) repository. The authors examine siting conflicts from a
variety of perspectives - political, psychological, and
sociological - and identify the fundamental determinants of public
opposition to waste disposal facilities as a means of designing
more effective approaches to solving the typical siting dilemma. In
assessing the causes of public opposition, the book draws on
various surveys of attitudes toward the repository as a function of
predictors such as perceptions of risk, benefits, and fairness.
Exploring the factors that underlie public opposition to a
repository enables one to understand why current siting efforts
have failed. More importantly, the data are useful in defining what
new strategies might be effective in obtaining public consent for a
HLNW storage facility. One of the primary conclusions is that the
current impasse in the siting of a HLNW repository stems primarily
from a lack of national consensus on the need for such a facility.
The book also recommends the need for a fair' siting process and
the authors strongly favor a voluntary process to solve the siting
dilemma. Such a process was initiated in the U.S. by the 1987
Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act; the process of finding a
volunteer site has proven to be difficult, but there are signs that
this process can work. Finally, the book focuses on the problems
associated with siting a HLNW repository by treating this case as a
generic example of the more basic siting dilemma. The analysis of
public opposition and the recommendations we make for successful
siting can be generalized to almost any attempt to site a noxious
facility.
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