ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to study the choices made by nuclear experts and decision-makers in designing solutions for managing and lowering the impact of radioactive waste. Revisiting past and present public decisions made for the management of nuclear waste, it emphasises the paradigmatic shift in which the early concept of waste disposal transformed into policy around waste storage and the correlated, changing vision of technological action. This chapter analyzes the development and implementation of the hybrid strategy that brings together nature and technology in response to the nuclear-waste problem, particularly in the case of the development of waste-management solutions to high-level and long lifespan radioactive waste.
