Public reactions to nuclear waste

Book · Fri Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:68721

Dunlap, R E; Kraft, M E; Rosa, E A ^[1]

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1. eds.

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.

• OSTI ID: 68721
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
HEALTH HAZARDS
PUBLIC ANXIETY
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
REVIEWS