Nuclear Imperatives And Public Trust

Author : Luther J. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317376309

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This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be of interest to students of environmental management.

Author : Luther J. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317376293

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Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust by Luther J. Carter Pdf

This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be of interest to students of environmental management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : MSU:31293018856140

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Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Samuel Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
ISBN : 0520260457

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The Road to Yucca Mountain by J. Samuel Walker Pdf

Examines the United States government's efforts to deal with the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste, describing various approaches used by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to deal with radioactive waste sites throughout the country.

Author : Terry Connolly,Hal R. Arkes,Kenneth R. Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521626021

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Judgment and Decision Making by Terry Connolly,Hal R. Arkes,Kenneth R. Hammond Pdf

This work examines issues such as medical diagnosis, weather forecasting, labour negotiations, risk, public policy, business strategy, eyewitnesses, and jury decisions. This is a revision of Arkes and Hammond's 1986 collection of papers on judgment and decision-making. Updated and extended, the focus of this volume is interdisciplinary and applied.

Author : George Cvetkovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134190140

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Social Trust and the Management of Risk by George Cvetkovich Pdf

Social trust is a crucial issue to many aspects of modern society. Policy makers continually aspire to winning it and corporations frequently run the risk of losing it. The 'trust deficit' raises vital questions and problems to which until recently there have been few answers or solutions. Experts from both sides of the Atlantic explore the importance for trust of various influences, from individual perceptions to organizational systems, and consider the conditions involved in building or undermining trust. Several authors examine practical hazard management issues, including medical vaccination programmes and popular participation in pollution control and waste management as strategies for enhancing social trust. This book provides insightful analysis for researchers and students of environmental and social sciences and is essential reading for those engaged in risk management in both the public and private sectors.

Author : Chuck McCutcheon
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0826322093

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Nuclear Reactions by Chuck McCutcheon Pdf

Marks the first effort to trace WIPP's (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) evolution.

Author : Spencer R. Weart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674065062

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The Rise of Nuclear Fear by Spencer R. Weart Pdf

After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the threat of climate change has never aroused the same visceral dread or swift action. Spencer Weart dissects this paradox, demonstrating that a powerful web of images surrounding nuclear energy holds us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.Building on his classic, Nuclear Fear, Weart follows nuclear imagery from its origins in the symbolism of medieval alchemy to its appearance in film and fiction. Long before nuclear fission was discovered, fantasies of the destroyed planet, the transforming ray, and the white city of the future took root in the popular imagination. At the turn of the twentieth century when limited facts about radioactivity became known, they produced a blurred picture upon which scientists and the public projected their hopes and fears. These fears were magnified during the Cold War, when mushroom clouds no longer needed to be imagined; they appeared on the evening news. Weart examines nuclear anxiety in sources as diverse as Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima Mon Amour, Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, and the television show The Simpsons.Recognizing how much we remain in thrall to these setpieces of the imagination, Weart hopes, will help us resist manipulation from both sides of the nuclear debate.

Author : Paul Slovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317341116

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The Perception of Risk by Paul Slovic Pdf

The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.

Author : Robert Vandenbosch,Susanne E. Vandenbosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123305109

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Nuclear Waste Stalemate by Robert Vandenbosch,Susanne E. Vandenbosch Pdf

This book examines the complex political, legal, and scientific issues relating to the disposal of nuclear waste, an issue that is gaining attention as demands for energy increase exponentially.

Author : Robert Pool
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195107722

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Beyond Engineering by Robert Pool Pdf

This book focuses on some of the groundbreaking engineering inventions of the 20th century.

Author : J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401584920

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Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy by J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown Pdf

Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable development, particularly in respect to the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. Specifically, the book examines the role, capabilities, and certain strengths and weaknesses of these disciplines and their ethical implications in the context of sustainable development problems. Such an analysis is necessary to determine whether sustainable development problems create important new challenges and problems for government so that, where appropriate, new tools or approaches may be designed to overcome limitations or take advantage of the strengths of current scientific, economic and legal capabilities. Audience: Environmental professionals, whether academic, governmental or industrial, or in the private consultancy sector. Also suitable as an upper level text or reference.

Author : K. S. Shrader-Frechette
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520913967

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Burying Uncertainty by K. S. Shrader-Frechette Pdf

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.

Author : Dennis J Coyle,Richard J Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000235685

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Politics, Policy, And Culture by Dennis J Coyle,Richard J Ellis Pdf

This new set of original case studies is designed to offer an empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory (Westview, 1990 ), the landmark statement of political culture theory authored by Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky, and to extend and challenge the analysis developed there. Here, the theoretical concepts laid out in that book

Author : Don Munton
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0878406255

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Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice by Don Munton Pdf

This volume analyzes the politics of hazardous waste siting and explores promising new strategies for siting facilities. Existing approaches to waste siting facilities have almost entirely failed, across all industrialized countries, largely because of community or NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) opposition. This volume examines a new strategy, voluntary choice siting--a process requiring mutual decisions negotiated between facility developers and the host communities. This bottom-up approach preserves democratic rights, recognizes the importance of public perceptions, and addresses issues of equity. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of experts probes recent examples of waste facilities siting in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Both the successes and the failures presented offer practical insights into the siting process. The book includes an introductory review of the literature on facility siting and the NIMBY phenomenon as well as instructive essays on the use of voluntary processes in facilities siting. This book will be of value to policymakers, industry, and environmental groups, as well as to those working in environmental studies and engineering, political science, public health, geography, planning, and business economics.