Nuclear Waste: A Technological and Political Challenge / Edition 1

by Piero Risoluti

Overview

Foreword Over the past decades, Piero Risoluti has built up an intimate knowledge of the nuclear industry - in particular of nuclear waste management. In this book, his scientific understanding is apparent - for example in his comprehensive but readily understandable descrip­ tions of waste conditioning and disposal. Moreover, he has also been directly involved in the wider societal and political debates in the nuclear area - especially in his Italian homeland. What shines through in these pages is.his frustration at the lack of progress in im­ plementing disposal concepts that are judged by many to be very safe and his unfaltering drive to improve this situation. To provoke debate, the book is very deliberately written in a po­ larising, black and white style that can easily be labelled as "politi­ cally incorrect" - a characterisation that Piero will probably agree with and be amused by. Criticism is directed equally at "loud­ mouthed and incompetent anti-nuclear environmentalists", the "nu­ clear Byzantium" of the international nuclear establishment, the "intellectual narcissism" of those nuclear experts that dare to admit the importance of societal issues, and the tendency of politicians to "in­ definite procrastination". These are not words chosen to avoid open confrontation of opposing views.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540404477
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	01/12/2004
Series:	Environmental Science and Engineering
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	133
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. The problem.- 2. A special energy and its enemies.- 3. Before and after Chernobyl.- 4. Technical issues.- 5. Nuclear Waste and Democracy.