Keywords:
Radioactive waste disposal -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Radioactive wastes -- Management.
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Nuclear power plants -- Germany.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book offers a description of the technical concepts and the legal situation regarding radioactive waste in different countries. It provides a fundamentally informing contribution and considers the ethical, legal and social aspects of this topic.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783642229251
Series Statement:
Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment Series ; v.38
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=885196
DDC:
363.72/89;363.7289
Language:
English
Note:
Title Page -- Preface -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Einleitung -- A Zusammenfassung, Schlussfolgerungen und Empfehlungen -- Zusammenfassung -- Technische Aspekte der dauerhaften Entsorgung radioaktiver Abfälle -- Strahlenrisiko und Strahlenschutz -- Entsorgung hochradioaktiver Abfälle unter dem Aspekt der Langzeitverantwortung -- Rechtsfragen -- Leitlinien für eine sozial verträgliche und gerechte Standortbestimmung -- Schlussfolgerungen und Empfehlungen -- Ethische Grundlagen -- Sicherheitsanforderungen und -ziele -- Entsorgungsprogramm und zeitlicher Ablauf -- Auswahlverfahren, Kriterien -- Transparenz, Risikokommunikation, Partizipation -- Institutionen im Verfahren, Expertengruppen -- Behördenorganisation -- Entscheidungs-Diagramme -- Vorbemerkungen -- Entscheidungsdiagramm I -- Entscheidungsdiagramm II -- IntroductionThe -- A Executive summary, conclusions and recommendations -- Executive summary -- Technical issues of long-term radioactive waste management -- Radiation risk and radiological protection -- Management of high level waste with reference to long-term responsibility -- Legal questions of managing high level radioactive waste -- Guidelines for a socially acceptable and fair site selection -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Ethical framework -- Safety requirements and goals -- Waste management programme and timescale -- Selection process, criteria -- Transparency, communication of risks, participation -- Institutions in the procedure, expert groups -- Administrative structure -- Decision-diagrammes -- Preliminary Remarks -- Decision diagramme I -- Decision diagramme II -- B Technical and normative foundations -- Waste management strategies and disposal design -- Background, basic approach -- Fuel cycle options and influence on basic aspects ofradioactive waste management.
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Classification of radioactive waste -- Current options for irradiated fuel management -- Advanced fuel cycles -- Ensuring subcriticality -- Potential radioactive waste management strategies and related technologies -- Steps and building blocks -- Reference case: direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel -- Other cycles for the management of spent nuclear fuel and high level waste -- Strategic decisions on the "end point" of radioactive waste management -- Safety and security issues -- Deep (geologic) disposal: potential host rocks and associated repository concepts -- Retrievability issues -- Long term safety assessment and the safety case -- Security against intrusion -- Challenges to demonstration of long-term safety -- Safety case concept -- Timescales and potential roadmap -- Radiation risk and radiological protection -- Introduction -- System of dose quantities in radiological protection -- Application of effective dose -- Collective dose -- Radiotoxicity of safety-relevant radionuclides for waste repositories -- Assessment of potential radiation doses from repositories -- What is a low radiation dose?27 -- Microdosimetric considerations -- Biological considerations -- Radiation exposures from natural and man-made sources today -- Development of health effects after radiation exposure28 -- Uncertainties and variability in dose and risk assessment -- Management of high level radioactive waste with reference to long-term responsibility -- Ethics as rational conflict resolution -- Rational conflict resolution -- Ethics and morality -- Ethical analysis of conflict -- Ethics and morals -- Long-term obligations as a topic of ethics -- Long-term obligations and "intergenerational justice" -- Long-term obligations vs. Long-term responsibility -- Long-term obligation - fundamental considerations -- Long-term obligation in the absence of knowledge.
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Legitimation and participation -- Preliminaries -- The tribalisation of science -- The overtaxing of the citizens' competence -- The plebiscitarism of the will of the people -- Legal questions of managing high level radioactive waste -- Basic legal issues -- The responsibility of the state -- Principles of radioactive waste management -- Degree of legalisation of waste management -- Decision-making levels -- International conventions and recommendations -- The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management -- Recommendations of international organisations and other bodies -- European regulation -- Euratom Treaty and European Directives -- Western European Regulator's Association and European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group -- Comparative experience -- General remarks -- Comparative evaluation -- German law -- Sources of legal regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and Operation -- Financing -- Guidlines for a socially acceptable and fair site selection -- Introduction -- Key issues of the debate -- Factors of risk perception -- Consequences of the population's risk perception -- Conflict diagnosis: what conflicts dominate the problem of final waste disposal? -- A fundamental requirement: effective risk communication -- Approaches to conflict management -- Top-down approach -- Top-down and bottom-up mix (muddling through) -- Bottom-up approach: discursive site selection -- A plea for a new beginning with a combined solution -- Concrete steps towards site selection -- Conclusions -- C Annex and apparatus -- Annex 1: Some fundamental data for the assessment of radiation risk and radiological protection -- Introduction and dosimetric quantities -- Microdosimetric considerations -- Physical considerations.
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Biological considerations -- Development of health effects after radiation exposure -- Epidemiological findings and their limits -- DNA damage and repair -- Dose modifying phenomena -- Mechanism of carcinogenesis and association with genomic instability -- Annex 2: Legal questions - comparative experience in selected countries -- United States -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- France -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- L.542-7).2.2.7 -- United Kingdom -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Switzerland -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Sweden -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site Selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Finland -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Japan -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional framework -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Spain -- Sources of regulation -- Responsibilities -- Institutional arrangements -- Strategies -- Site selection -- Construction and operation -- Financing -- Abbreviations -- Chemical elements sorted by abbreviations in alphabetical order -- Bibliography -- List of Authors.
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