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Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their
level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important
environmental problems for all societies that produce utility,
industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attemps
to site low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western
industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts
between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of
local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among
involved parties. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting is the result of a
study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed and
successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study is
based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting processes
in six countries. Siting processes in five states within the United
States and in five additional countries are analyzed using
information obtained from public documents and supplemented by
interviews with key participants. The selected states and countries
are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to establish
LLRW disposal facilities during the past decade. They vary widely
in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the
institutional structures developed for managing the siting process,
the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the
facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in
making decisions. The analysis of these case histories provides
general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and
weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or
implemented. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting provides valuable data
for academics and researchers working in the area of environmental
management.
Planning for the management of nuclear wastes, whatever their level
of radioactivity, is one of the most important environmental
problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial,
medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attempts to site
low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western
industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts
between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of
local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among
involved parties. "LLRW Disposal Facility Siting" is the result of
a study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed
and successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study
is based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting
processes in six countries. Siting processes in five states within
the United States and in five additional countries are analyzed
using information obtained from public documents and supplemented
by interviews with key participants. The selected states and
countries are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to
establish LLRW disposal facilities between 1984 and 1994. They vary
widely in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the
institutional structures developed for managing the siting process,
the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the
facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in
making decisions. The analysis of these case histories provides
general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and
weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or
implemented. The text provides data for academics and researchers
working in the area of environmental management.
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