LLRW Disposal Facility Siting - Successes and Failures in Six Countries

Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important environmental problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attemps to site low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among involved parties.
LLRW Disposal Facility Siting is the result of a study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed and successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study is based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting processes in six countries. Siting processes in five states within the United States and in five additional countries are analyzed using information obtained from public documents and supplemented by interviews with key participants. The selected states and countries are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to establish LLRW disposal facilities during the past decade. They vary widely in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the institutional structures developed for managing the siting process, the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in making decisions.
The analysis of these case histories provides general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or implemented. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting provides valuable data for academics and researchers working in the area of environmental management.

List of contents

1: Introduction.- Public Concerns About LLRW Disposal Facilities.- Factors Associated with Successful Siting Processes.- The Facility Siting Credo.- The Competing Values Approach.- Study Method and Structure.- 2: Federal History.- 3: New York.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the New York State Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 4: California.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the California Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- Chapters 5: Illinois.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the Illinois Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 6: Nebraska.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Method Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the Nebraska Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 7: Texas.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the Texas Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 8: Canada.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Site Selection for the Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Analyzing the Canadian Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 9: France.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Analyzing the French Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 10: The Netherlands.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Site Selection for the Long-Term Storage Facility.- Method Selection for the Long-Term Storage Facility.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the Dutch Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 11: Sweden.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Site Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Analyzing the Swedish Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 12: Switzerland.- Background.- Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Site Selection for the Permanenet Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Interim Waste Management.- Analyzing the Swiss Case History from the Perspective of the Competing Values Approach.- 13: Findings and Conclusions.-Overall Approach.- Institutional Structure.- Design of the Site- and Method-Selection Processes.- Site-Selection for the Permanent Disposal Facility.- Permanent Disposal Method Selection.- Compensation and Incentives.- Evaluating the Siting Processes from the Competing Values Perspective.- Conclusions.- References.

Report

` ... the book makes a useful contribution to the literature and illustrates the applied value of some insights derived from the literature on decision making to policy decision making. The book is essential reading for policy decision makers and extremely useful for applied research on siting hazardous facilities.'
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 9:2

Product details

• Authors: J L Mumpower, J. L. Mumpower, J.L. Mumpower, Patrici Reagan-Cirincione, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, Vari, A Vari, A. Vari
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9789401044899
• ISBN: 978-94-0-104489-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 18 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 310 p.
• Series: Risk, Governance and Society; Risk, Governance and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business