Burying uncertainty : risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste /
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 p...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1993.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp0mt |
書本目錄:
- The Riddle of Nuclear Waste
- The Status Quo: Promoting Permanent Disposal
- The Mistakes of the Past
- Understanding the Origins of the Problem
- Radioactive Waste: Technical Background
- Radioactive Waste: Historical Background
- The Current Status of High-Level Radioactive Waste
- Radioactive Waste: Legal and Regulatory Background
- Reliance on Value Judgments in Repository Risk Assessment
- Science and Methodological Value Judgments
- Quantitative Risk Assessment and Value Judgments
- Value Judgments in Estimating Risks
- Value Judgments in Evaluating Risks
- Subjective Estimates of Repository Risks
- Repository Risk Estimates Rely on Questionable Value Judgments
- Value Judgments about Long-term Risks
- Value Judgments about Model Reliability
- Value Judgments about Simplification of the Phenomena
- Value Judgments about Reliability of Sampling
- Value Judgments about Laboratory Predictions
- Value Judgments about Fractured, Unsaturated Media
- Value Judgments that Interpolations Are Acceptable
- Value Judgments that Human Error Is Not Significant
- Problems with Yucca Mountain versus Problems with Permanent Disposal
- Subjective Evaluations of Repository Risks
- Value Judgments that a Given Magnitude of Risk Is Acceptable
- Value Judgments that Risk Reductions Are Sufficient
- Value Judgments that Worst-case Hazards Are Not Credible
- Value Judgments that Average Risks Are Acceptable
- Value Judgments that More Recent Assessments Are More Reliable
- Value Judgments that Utilitarian Risk Theories Are Just.