Frans Berkhout

Radioactive Waste

Politics and Technology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Radioactive Waste provides a detailed historical account of the policy and practice of radwaste management in Britain, Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. In their differing approaches, these three countries define the parameters of civil nuclear strategy in Europe. The comparative analysis of the evolution of policy clarifies the context of political and technical decision-making. Assessing the varying degrees of influence which the public, the industry and the government exercise over these actions, Frans Berkhout applies the concept of boundaries of control', questioning the extent to which such control can be relinquished. This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue of radwaste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about power, the environment and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780415054935
• ISBN-10: 0415054931
• Artikelnr.: 26680188

Autorenporträt

Frans Berkhout is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Managing radioactivity 1.1 Radioactive wastes and public concern 1.2 The
need for the study 1.3 Methods 1.4 The nuclear-fuel cycle and radioactive
wastes 1.5 The objectives of radioactive-waste management and radiation
protection 1.6 The structure of the book 2 Time and the boundary of control
2.1 Introduction2.2 Time and control 2.3 Hypotheticality and performance
2.4 Modelling the performance of disposal systems 2.5 Regulating risks and
its social consequences 2.6 A synthesis: setting boundaries of control 2.7
Conclusion 3 The Federal Republic of Germany 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Legal and
institutional framework 3.3 The historical setting of Entsorgung politics
3.4 An historical analysis of Entsorgung policy 3.5 Conclusion 4 Sweden 4.1
Introduction 4.2 The legal and institutional framework for radwaste
management 4.3 The historical roots of nuclear power in Sweden 4.4 The
making of Swedish radwaste policy 4.5 Conclusion 5 The United Kingdom 5.1
Introduction 5.2 The control of radioactive wastes 5.3 The logic of
reprocessing 5.4 An historical assessment of radwaste management policy and
practice 5.5 Conclusion 6 Industry, regulation and the state: historical
themes 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The relationship between industrial and
environmental regulatory goals in the nuclear-fuel cycle 6.3 Radwaste
management: the evolution of policy 6.4 Conclusion 7 The construction of
consent 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Legitimation and radwaste policies 7.3 The
problem of legitimation 7.4 Regulation and the construction of consent 7.5
Conclusion 8 Conclusions