Problems and Prospects for Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Preface ix
• 1 - When Rationality and Good Science Are Not Enough: Science, Politics, and the Policy Process 1
• Notes 12
• References 12
• 2 - Beyond Yucca Mountain and Environmental Gridlock: An Alternative Future for Nuclear Waste Policy 15
• References 28
• 3 - Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts: Cases in the Illogic of Collective Action? 31
• Notes 41
• 4 - Legal Issues Surrounding Nuclear Waste Storage and Transportation 47
• Notes 58
• 5 - Critical Organization and Management Issues in Nuclear Waste Disposal 61
• Notes 72
• References 73
• 6 - Managing Science: Quality Assurance and Nuclear Waste Disposal 75
• References 88
• 7 - Transporting Nuclear Wastes: Securing Public Trust 91
• Notes 101
• References 101
• 8 - Nuclear Waste Management in Sweden: Balancing Risk Perceptions and Developing Community Consensus 105
• Notes 119
• References 119
• 9 - Subsystem Politics and the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Congressional Oversight of DOE's Environmental Restoration Program 121
• Notes 135
• References 136
• 10 - Environmental Policymaking Under New Federalism: The Hanford Clean-Up 139
• Notes 151
• References 151
• Index 153
• Editors and Contributors 159
• Policy Studies Organization publications issued with Greenwood Press/Quorum Books 161

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