Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste - Couverture souple

Shrader-Frechette, K. S. S.

 
9780520083011: Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste
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ISBN 10 : 0520083016 ISBN 13 : 9780520083011
Editeur : University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.

What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially designed deep repositories.

K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically-because we cannot trust the precision of 10,000-year predictions that promise containment of the waste. Ethically-because geological disposal ignores the rights of present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and free informed consent.

Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you can't see can hurt you.

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À propos de l?auteur

K. S. Shrader-Frechette is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and is the author of twelve books including Risk and Rationality (California, 1990).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520083016
ISBN 13 
9780520083011
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
364
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0520082443 ISBN 13 :  9780520082441
Editeur : University of California Press, 1993
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