TY  - GEN
T1  - Burying uncertainty : risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste
A1  - Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1993
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm45732024
AB  - 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
OP  - 346
CN  - TD898.2
SN  - 9780520913967
SN  - 0520913965
SN  - 9780520082441
SN  - 9780520083011
SN  - 0520082443
SN  - 0520083016
SN  - 1282354973
SN  - 9781282354975
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground : Environmental aspects.
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground : Risk assessment.
KW  - Déchets radioactifs : Élimination dans le sol : Aspect de l'environnement.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Power Resources : Nuclear.
KW  - NATURE : Environmental Conservation & Protection.
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground : Environmental aspects
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground : Risk assessment
KW  - Radioaktiver Abfall
KW  - Endlagerung
KW  - Geologie
KW  - Risiko
KW  - Radioactive waste materials : Disposal
ER  -