One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Overview of a Troubled Program -- Nuclear Waste Policy Act and Its Amendments -- Complexity and Scientific Uncertainty: Doubts About Yucca Mountain -- Public Attitudes Toward Nuclear Waste Issues: Gambling with the Quality of Life in Nevada -- Governmental and Institutional Failures -- International Experiences -- Recommendations -- Problems with High-Level Nuclear Waste and a Little History -- The High-Level Nuclear Waste Dilemma -- Geologic Disposal -- Failings of the Repository Program -- Policies and Politics -- Principles of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act -- Focus on Legitimacy -- Violation of Ethical Principles -- Unraveling of the High-Level Nuclear Waste Program -- Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments: An Intergovernmental Crisis -- Nevada's Response -- Complexity and Uncertainty -- The Problem of Complexity -- The Problem of Uncertainty -- Uncertainty at Yucca Mountam -- A New Management Approach -- Public Responses to High-Level Nuclear Wastes Opposing Models for Managing Nuclear Technologies -- Studies of Perceptions and Social Behaviors -- Stigma and the Nevada Economy -- Forecasting Behavior Using Imagery -- Origins of Public Responses to Nuclear Technologies -- International Experiences -- Waste Management in Five Countries -- Generic Lessons -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Reevaluate the Commitment to Underground Geologic Disposal -- Use Interim Storage Facilities -- Evaluate More than One Site -- Employ a Voluntary Site Selection Process -- Negotiate Agreements and Compensation Packages -- Acknowledge and Accept the Legitimacy of Public Concerns -- Guarantee Stringent Safety Standards -- Restore Credibility to the Waste Disposal Program -- Update on the High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Siting -- Problems and Recommendations, 103 -- The Department of Energy's Response: The Proposed Program Approach -- Summarizing the Situation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Authors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.