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Waste is a terrible thing to mind : risk, radiation, and distrust of government / John Weingart.

Title
Waste is a terrible thing to mind : risk, radiation, and distrust of government / John Weingart.
Author
Weingart, John.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Center for Analysis of Public Issues, c2001.

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Center for Analysis of Public Issues
Description
x, 427 p. : ill., maps, port.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • NIMBY syndrome > New Jersey
  • Radioactive waste disposal > New Jersey
  • Radioactive waste disposal > Risk assessment > New Jersey
  • Radioactive waste disposal > United States
  • Radioactive waste sites > Public opinion. > New Jersey
  • United States > Public opinion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Visualizing success -- Radiation and risk -- Multi-state compacts : seeking regional solutions -- First steps : the New Jersey siting process begins -- Connecticut and Illinois : the seeds of the voluntary siting process -- 'One tough job : peddling radioactive waste' -- Culture -- Lessons from Roosevelt -- Elsinboro -- Selling snake oil at rotary clubs -- Nibbles -- Hamburg helper, or 'dump dangles big carrot' -- Welcome to Allowayste -- More nibbles -- Planning for the general election -- Barnwell returns -- The Saturday paper -- 'Lower thumps dump' -- 'Somebody wants it' -- Environmental justice and other lessons from Fairfield -- Falling dominos -- The poll -- More planning for the election -- O little town of Bethlehem -- 'An appalling lack of ignorance' -- A bureaucrat's journal from April 28, 1997 to February 12, 1998 -- Postscript, November 1998 -- The problem is solved -- In-state siting options -- Other states : Utah, North Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, and California -- High-level waste : the federal experience -- Environmentalists and risk : have we met the enemy? -- Fear of risk : it could happen -- Fear of government -- Making government work in a NIMBY age.
ISBN
0943136261
OCLC
47004295
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library