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Nuclear Waste Governance

An International Comparison

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Achim Brunnengräber

    1. Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Maria Rosaria Di Nucci

    1. Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Ana Maria Isidoro Losada

    1. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  4. Lutz Mez

    1. Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  5. Miranda A. Schreurs

    1. Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Nuclear Waste Governance in United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, USA, Netherlands, Italy, and Spain
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-21
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Comparative Perspectives on Nuclear Waste Governance

      • Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Achim Brunnengräber, Lutz Mez, Miranda Schreurs
      Pages 25-43

  3. The International Dimension

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste Governance Perspectives after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

      • Achim Brunnengräber, Miranda Schreurs
      Pages 47-78

    3. An Open Door for Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Export?

      • Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada
      Pages 79-97

  4. Countries with Geological Disposal after Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Multiple Challenges

      • Gordon MacKerron
      Pages 101-116

    3. Megaproject Underway

      • Markku Lehtonen
      Pages 117-138

  5. Countries With Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel (Including Cases with Additional Disposal of Radioactive Waste from Reprocessing)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Advanced Research, Lagging Policy

      • Jantine Schröder, Anne Bergmans, Erik Laes
      Pages 141-155

    3. Participation under Tricky Conditions

      • Peter Hocke, Sophie Kuppler
      Pages 157-176

    4. Always the Same Old Story?

      • Peter Hocke, Beate Kallenbach-Herbert
      Pages 177-201

    5. Model or Muddle?

      • Tomas Kåberger, Johan Swahn
      Pages 203-225

    6. A Final Solution for a Big Challenge

      • Burkhard Auffermann, Pertti Suomela, Jari Kaivo-oja, Jarmo Vehmas, Jyrki Luukkanen
      Pages 227-247

    7. The Trouble with Democracy

      • Martin Bursík
      Pages 249-264

    8. “Yucca Mountain is Dead”

      • Richard A. Forrest
      Pages 265-277

  6. Countries with Long-Term Surface Storage for High Level Radioactive Waste

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. With Access to the Future

      • Maarten J. Arentsen
      Pages 281-298

    3. Breaking the Stalemate

      • Maria Rosaria Di Nucci
      Pages 299-322
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About this book

This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, monitoring systems, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public involvement. Key stakeholders, their values and interests are introduced, the responsibilities and authority of different actors considered, decision-making processes are analyzed as well as the factors influencing different national policy choices. The views and expectations of different communities regarding participatory decision making and compensation and the steps that have been or are being taken to promote dialogue and constructive problem-solving are also considered.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Achim Brunnengräber, Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Lutz Mez, Miranda A. Schreurs

  • Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ana Maria Isidoro Losada

About the editors

Achim Brunnengräber, Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada, Lutz Mez and Miranda Schreurs; Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin and members of the project “Multi-level Governance Perspective on Nuclear Waste Disposal” within the research platform ENTRIA.

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