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- Title
Collaboration by Deflection: Coping with Spent Nuclear Fuel.
- Authors
Karlesky, Joseph J.
- Abstract
For more than three decades, the U.S. national government has wrestled with the problem of siting a central repository for high-level radioactive waste, most of it spent fuel from nuclear power plants. Scholars and practitioners recommend a collaborative and participative approach to the siting process to ensure accountability and representativeness, but the search for a working repository so far has been unsuccessful. Consequently, more nuclear power plants must add or expand dry cask facilities to store accumulating amounts of spent fuel. Are collaboration and accountability and successful execution of results possible in state decisions on dry cask storage in a way that they have eluded the central siting process? The special characteristics of dispersed dry cask storage, in contrast to transporting the waste to a central repository, can facilitate collaboration and accountability, as decisions on dry cask storage in Minnesota and Vermont demonstrate.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RADIOACTIVE waste disposal; INTERAGENCY coordination; PUBLIC administration research; RADIOACTIVE waste repository laws; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 2012, Vol 72, Issue 2, p196
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02493.x