ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |120 pages
Sources of Public Unease
chapter |31 pages
Containment
chapter |49 pages
A Technology Ahead of Itself
chapter |36 pages
The Reprocessing Dilemma
part |104 pages
Searching for a Waste Policy
chapter |15 pages
Policy Struggles in the Bureaucracy
chapter |49 pages
Conflict in the Host States
chapter |36 pages
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act
part |167 pages
Europe, Japan, and the International Waste Problem
chapter |2 pages
Introduction to Part 3
chapter |29 pages
The United Kingdom: Problems of Containment
chapter |24 pages
Germany: Wastes, Fuel Cycle Choice, and Politics
chapter |18 pages
Sweden: Robust Solutions
chapter |27 pages
France: Commitment to Plutonium Fuel
chapter |34 pages
Japan, the Pacific, and the Nuclear Allergy
chapter |29 pages
Transnational Problems and the Need for Multinational Solutions
part |35 pages
A Time to Act