Burying Uncertainty - Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste (Paperback, Reissue)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1993
First published:	1994
Authors:	K. S. Shrader-Frechette
Dimensions:	227 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-08301-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Nuclear issues Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General
LSN:	0-520-08301-6
Barcode:	9780520083011

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