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Public reactions to nuclear waste
Abstract
For many scientists, engineers, and regulators, the public controversy over siting a repository for high-level nuclear wastes exemplifies the clash between rational scientific judgment and irrational public attitudes. Even many who are more sympathetic to public concerns about risk and management believe the controversy is exacerbated by incompatibilities between good science and public participation in regulatory decision-making. Understanding the incompatibilities, however, is crucial to managing science and technology in a democratic society and provides an important motivation to study the relationship between public opinion and nuclear waste policy. In this book, Dunlap and his colleagues present a solid base of empirical research on the subject, and the strength of the collection is the careful unraveling of social factors and context to explain the overwhelmingly negative public view of nuclear waste and its management.
- Authors:
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- eds.
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 68721
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: From review by Robin Cantor, National Science Foundation, American Association for Advancement Science, Vol. 266 No. 5182 (7 Oct 1994); PBD: 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; PUBLIC ANXIETY; REVIEWS; HEALTH HAZARDS
Citation Formats
Dunlap, R E, Kraft, M E, and Rosa, E A. Public reactions to nuclear waste. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web.
Dunlap, R E, Kraft, M E, & Rosa, E A. Public reactions to nuclear waste. United States.
Dunlap, R E, Kraft, M E, and Rosa, E A. 1993.
"Public reactions to nuclear waste". United States.
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abstractNote = {For many scientists, engineers, and regulators, the public controversy over siting a repository for high-level nuclear wastes exemplifies the clash between rational scientific judgment and irrational public attitudes. Even many who are more sympathetic to public concerns about risk and management believe the controversy is exacerbated by incompatibilities between good science and public participation in regulatory decision-making. Understanding the incompatibilities, however, is crucial to managing science and technology in a democratic society and provides an important motivation to study the relationship between public opinion and nuclear waste policy. In this book, Dunlap and his colleagues present a solid base of empirical research on the subject, and the strength of the collection is the careful unraveling of social factors and context to explain the overwhelmingly negative public view of nuclear waste and its management.},
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