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LLRW Disposal Facility Siting

Successes and Failures in Six Countries

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Authors:
  1. Anna Vari

    1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  2. Patricia Reagan-Cirincione

    1. University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  3. Jeryl L. Mumpower

    1. State University of New York, Albany, USA

Part of the book series: Risk, Governance and Society (RISKGOSO, volume 8)

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Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important environmental problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attemps to site low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among involved parties.
LLRW Disposal Facility Siting is the result of a study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed and successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study is based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting processes in six countries. Siting processes in five states within the United States and in five additional countries are analyzed using information obtained from public documents and supplemented by interviews with key participants. The selected states and countries are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to establish LLRW disposal facilities during the past decade. They vary widely in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the institutional structures developed for managing the siting process, the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in making decisions.
The analysis of these case histories provides general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or implemented. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting provides valuable data for academics and researchers working in the area of environmental management.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 1-14

  3. Federal History

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 15-22

  4. New York

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 23-65

  5. California

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 66-90

  6. Illinois

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 91-107

  7. Nebraska

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 108-133

  8. Texas

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 134-159

  9. Canada

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 160-176

  10. France

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 177-185

  11. The Netherlands

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 186-196

  12. Sweden

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 197-205

  13. Switzerland

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 206-214

  14. Findings and Conclusions

    • Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 215-241

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 242-310
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` ... the book makes a useful contribution to the literature and illustrates the applied value of some insights derived from the literature on decision making to policy decision making. The book is essential reading for policy decision makers and extremely useful for applied research on siting hazardous facilities.'
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 9:2

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Anna Vari

  • University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Patricia Reagan-Cirincione

  • State University of New York, Albany, USA

    Jeryl L. Mumpower

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: LLRW Disposal Facility Siting

  • Book Subtitle: Successes and Failures in Six Countries

  • Authors: Anna Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Jeryl L. Mumpower

  • Series Title: Risk, Governance and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1120-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2743-1Published: 31 March 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4489-9Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1120-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2512-3076

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-3084

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 310

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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