The selection of a suitable site for disposal of nuclear waste is today one of the most difficult and controversial tasks, primarily because of the opposition of the local community. This book is geared to explain the origin of the negative perception of nuclear energy by the public at large. The author emphasizes that the problem of social acceptance of nuclear-waste disposal sites is mostly based on misinformation conveyed by antinuclear ...

The far-reaching effects of radiological hazards on population, environment, agriculture etc., are not yet clear and only limited research is being done in this specific field to date. The author provides updated information in several radiological hazardous areas based on field work between 1995 and 2000. The sites include the Techa Riverside, contaminated by the plutonium production complex Mayak in Russia, the area around the Semipalatinsk ...

Der endgültige Verbleib hoch radioaktiver Abfälle ist nach wie vor ungeklärt. Weltweit ist bislang kein Endlager in Betrieb. Die Gründe hierfür liegen weniger im naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Bereich, sondern in der verbreiteten gesellschaftlichen Ablehnung: "Atommüll" ist nach wie vor ein Reizwort, und die Endlagerung gehört immer noch zu den großen Technikkonflikten. Diese Situation legt die Frage ...

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. Traditionally, it has been considered as mainly a challenge to scientists and engineers to develop technical "solutions" to specific problems. But increasingly these narrow solutions have been enlarged by wider societal considerations such as ethics, public involvement, control and retrievability - needs that have in the ...

Analyses of radionuclide transport in geologic radioactive waste repository are made for a water-saturated repository and an unsaturated repository. To deal with the transport problem at the repository scale with multiple nuclide sources, compartment models are developed. The models allow us to observe the effects of repository layout on the performance of waste disposal system, and thus can be applied for making comparisons among various ...

For over a decade, conflict among members of a small Native American tribe in Southwestern Utah has resulted in intra-tribal fights, lawsuits, a coup and a new regime, and threats of termination of tribal membership. At the core of the conflict among members of the Skull Valley Goshutes over the storing of nuclear waste on their reservation are issues of political, cultural, and environmental identity. Using narrated identity theory by Paul ...

Die Standortfindung bei der langfristigen Lagerung radioaktiver Abfälle ist ein seit Jahren kontrovers diskutiertes Problem weltweit. In vielen Ländern gibt es Übereinstimmung darüber, dass insbesondere die hochradioaktiven Abfälle in geeignete geologische Formationen im Untergrund verbracht werden sollen. Ungeklärt ist aber meistenorts die Standortfrage. Eng damit verbunden ist das Verfahren, das zu einem geeigneten Standort führen soll.Hinter ...