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Public mistrust of nuclear power, anxiety over nuclear wastes

if President Obama is seeking to promote nuclear energy and find a new waste strategy, the waste panel needs to focus on the issue of public mistrust as well as technological solutions

Address Mistrust, Scientists Urge Nuclear Panel – NYTimes.com, August 13, 2010,  By LESLIE KAUFMAN “……60,000 tons of radioactive waste are being stored at or near nuclear plants that churned it out, and successive administrations have planned but failed to build a safe storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Making good on a campaign pledge, President Obama canceled plans for the Yucca Mountain repository altogether. Instead he appointed a 15-member blue-ribbon panel of experts to offer new recommendations for the safe storage of nuclear waste…..
if President Obama is seeking to promote nuclear energy and find a new waste strategy, the waste panel needs to focus on the issue of public mistrust as well as technological solutions, some scientists argue in an article in the journal Science.

“While scientific and technical analyses are essential, they will not and arguably should not carry the day unless they address, substantively and procedurally, the issues that concern the public,” the authors write in a policy paper in Friday’s issue………

Address Mistrust, Scientists Urge Nuclear Panel – Green Blog – NYTimes.com

August 14, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons, reactors, uranium