Environment & Policy

Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance

By: Thomas FlÃ¼eler

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Hardcover | 21 December 2005

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Waste management can be considered as a mirror of society. In its (our) fluctuating definition, besides conserving a supply of valuable materials and resources, it acts as a fascinating expression for our throw-away mentality. Waste is inevitable, but it nevertheless provides an opportunity, a need and an incentive for society to pursue a more careful management of it. If this is successfully carried out, society may well find it possible to manage itself in an overall more careful and universal way. The management, or governance, of radioactive waste particularly is determined by a complex constellation of individuals, social aggregates, and institutions. A wealth of interconnected parts forms a complex and volatile system that is highly technical and explosively political in nature. The problems inherent in this system must be managed so as to reach a safe, acceptable, responsible, feasible, and sustainable "solution". It is a system with an objective long-term dimension, with a hazard potential of, in part, hundreds of thousands of years; and it has a long-term institutional dimension insofar as its implementation must last for decades. The very notion of risk extends from the long life of radionuclides, over the perception of dread to the decisional risk of whether, when and how to implement an agreed upon "solution".

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"Flueeler provides one of the most extensive bibliographies, which he conveniently organizes into a number of useful categories for those who are conducting research in this area. His extensive experience with how this issue was dealt with in Switzerland over a 50-y period along with examples from a variety of other countries is well documented. ... This text would be valuable for those specialists who are directly involved in dealing with the issue of radioactive waste ... ." (Stewart, Health Physics, Vol. 93 (2), 2007)

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Preface
Summary
Introduction
Overall Issue and Methodology
Setting And Topics At Issue
Objectives And Aim
Research Political Embedding
Issues Under Investigation, Evidence And Validation
Perspective "From Below": Risk Perception of The Public
Insights From Risk Perception Research
Risk Perception In Radioactive Waste Issues
Perspective "From Above": Decision Processes
Insights From Decision Science
Development Of Decision Making In Technical Systems
Decisions In Radioactive Waste Management
Siting As An Example Of Sub-Optimum Decision-Making
Conclusions and Further Development
Patterns Of Arguments In Radioactive Waste Governance
Fundamentals Of A Comparison Of Disposition Options
Proposal For A Concept Of An Overall System Robustness
References
Index
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