One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude

Redirecting America's High-level Nuclear Waste Policies
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-29736-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 129 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep underground repository for high-level nuclear wastes. As the authors of this study show, by 1987 the program was in shambles, beset by opposition from every state that had a potential storage site. Congress p

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flynn, James

Chalmers, James

Easterling, Doug

Kasperson, Roger

Kunreuther, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Overview of a Troubled Program -- Problems with High-Level Nuclear Waste and a Little History -- Policies and Politics -- Complexity and Uncertainty -- Public Responses to High-Level Nuclear Wastes -- International Experiences -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Update on the High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Siting

Über Autor(innen)

The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade.