Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust Dealing with Radioactive Waste [Hardcover]

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.

Preface;  Introduction;  Part 1: Sources of Public Unease;  1. Containment  2. A Technology Ahead of Itself  3. The Reprocessing Dilemma;  Part 2: Searching for a Waste Policy;  4. Policy Struggles in the Bureaucracy  5. Conflict in the Host States  6. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act;  Part 3: Europe, Japan, and the International Waste Problem;  7. The United Kingdom: Problems of Containment  8. Germany: Wastes, Fuel Cycle Choice, and Politics  9. Sweden: Robust Solutions  10. France: Commitment to Plutonium Fuel  11. Japan, the Pacific, and the Nuclear Allergy  12. Transnational Problems and the Need for Multinational Solutions;  Part 4: Time to Act;  13. Common Ground;  Glossary;  Name Index;  Subject Index