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Burying Uncertainty - Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste (Paperback, Reissue)
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Burying Uncertainty - Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste (Paperback, Reissue)
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Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding
the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and
ethically.
What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste,
which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of
the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and
current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially
designed deep repositories.
K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly
misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds.
Scientifically--because we cannot trust the precision of
10,000-year predictions that promise containment of the waste.
Ethically--because geological disposal ignores the rights of
present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and
free informed consent.
Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first
proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain,
Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates
the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that
claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should
postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century
and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste
until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you
"can't" see "can" hurt you.
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