Distributive versus procedural justice in nuclear waste repository siting
Distributive versus procedural justice in nuclear waste repository siting
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核废料处置库选址中的分配正义与程序正义
DOI:
10.1017/cbo9781107294905.007
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发表时间:
2015
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M. Stauffacher
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P. Krütli;Kjell Y. Törnblom;I. Wallimann;M. Stauffacher
When civil use of nuclear power was introduced in the late 1950s, it was meant to provide current and future societies with positively valued resource electricity. Decades later it was evident that electricity production in nuclear power plants produced harmful nuclear waste as a by-product. In contrast to electricity, nuclear waste is negatively valued. Strong resistance against potential repositories for nuclear waste emerged when implementers initiated site selection processes and site exploration. The reasons for opposition were manifold: inappropriate top-down decision-making procedures (eg Rosa and Clark 1999); perceived high risks of radioactive leakage (eg Slovic 1987); lack of trust in implementers in particular (eg Kasperson et al. 1992); fundamental opposition to the use of nuclear power in general (eg Rosa and Freudenberg 1993); violation of ethical norms (eg Shrader-Frechette 2000); values (eg Sjöberg and Drottz-Sjöberg 2001); and the so-called NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) attitude (eg Kraft and Clary 1991). Justice issues emerged during the early stages when people realized that safe storage of nuclear waste is very problematic and cannot be easily resolved. Justice in its distributive sense concerns questions about what is a fair share of a particular (tangible or intangible, positive or negative) social resource that is allocated or exchanged. The focus can be on intergenerational and/or intragenerational justice, which, in turn, represents a mismatch between the outcomes of the profiteers of nuclear energy and the affected future generations (Shrader-Frechette 1980; Kasperson 1983; KASAM 1988), as well as between the outcomes of the profiteers and parts of the present generations. Procedural justice issues were mostly neglected until the 1990s, when responsible institutions began to realize that open-ended, transparent, stepwise, and participatory processes were indispensable prerequisites to making progress in finding geologically suitable sites (eg National Research Council