Challenges Of Nuclear Waste Governance: An International Comparison Volume Ii (energiepolitik Und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy And Climate Protection)

This is volume two of a comparative analysis of nuclear waste governance and public participation in decision-making regarding the storage and siting of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel in different countries. The contributors examine both the historical and current approaches countries have taken to address the wicked challenge of nuclear waste governance. The analyses discuss the regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, costs and financing issues, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public participation found in each country. Contents Technical, Political, and Socio-Economic Challenges of Nuclear Waste Governance "The Big 4" - China, Russia, South Korea and Japan The Eastern European Countries Nuclear Waste Governance in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa Target Groups Energy (policy) experts, nuclear energy experts and practitioners, political and social scientists, economists, engineers, decision makers and consultants, civil society organizations The Editors Achim Brunnengräber, Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada, Lutz Mez, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, and Miranda A. Schreurs, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, were members of the project "Multi Level Governance-Perspective on Nuclear Waste Disposal" within the research platform ENTRIA (2013-2017) This is volume two of a comparative analysis of nuclear waste governance and public participation in decision-making regarding the storage and siting of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel in different countries. The contributors examine both the historical and current approaches countries have taken to address the wicked challenge of nuclear waste governance. The analyses discuss the regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, costs and financing issues, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public participation found in each country. Contents Technical, Political, and Socio-Economic Challenges of Nuclear Waste Governance "The Big 4" - China, Russia, South Korea and Japan The Eastern European Countries Nuclear Waste Governance in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa Target Groups Energy (policy) experts, nuclear energy experts and practitioners, political and social scientists, economists, engineers, decision makers and consultants, civil society organizations The Editors Achim Brunnengräber, Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada, Lutz Mez, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, and Miranda A. Schreurs, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, were members of the project "Multi Level Governance-Perspective on Nuclear Waste Disposal" within the research platform ENTRIA (2013-2017) Front Matter ....Pages I-XV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Technical, Political and Socio-Economic Challenges of Governing Nuclear Waste (Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada, Miranda A. Schreurs, Achim Brunnengräber, Lutz Mez)....Pages 3-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 A Long Way Off (Eva Sternfeld)....Pages 25-50 A Profitable Business Strategy? (Felix Jaitner)....Pages 51-72 Transitioning Away from Opaque Governance (Sung-Jin Leem, Miranda A. Schreurs)....Pages 73-93 False Premise, False Promise (Lila Okamura)....Pages 95-120 Front Matter ....Pages 121-121 Postponed Policy (Zsuzsanna Koritár)....Pages 123-137 Progress on Nuclear Waste Management (Povilas Poskas)....Pages 139-160 Delays in Finding a Solution (Peter Mihók)....Pages 161-181 An Arranged Marriage (Leo Šešerko)....Pages 183-209 Too much to Handle (Olexi Pasyuk)....Pages 211-243 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 A Twinned Approach (Cindy Vestergaard)....Pages 247-271 A Democratic Deficit (Moïra Jimeno)....Pages 273-294 Disposal and Contamination (David Fig)....Pages 295-328 Back Matter ....Pages 329-333