Wastesheds

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-103

  McGinnis, Michael Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDOUS WASTE; SOCIAL NETWORK; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031875961     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455759809358781     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Gary Snyder, A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1995).
2. Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (New York: North Point Press, 1990).
3. Michael V. McGinnis, ed., Bioregionalism: The Tug and Pull of Place (New York and London: Routledge, 1998 [in press]).
4. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggest that exposures of the public should not exceed .25mSv (25 mrem) per person per year. EPA estimates that people living near a LLW disposal facility would be exposed to up to 10 mrem a year (see Council of Scientific Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association 26, 5, August 4, 1989, p. 670.). Also, D. Bartlett and J. Steele, in Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1985), state that the NRC acknowledged that the repository in Barnwell, South Carolina has dealt with material which was emitting up to 10,000 rems per hour (and a three-minute exposure would be lethal to a human being).
5. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggest that exposures of the public should not exceed .25mSv (25 mrem) per person per year. EPA estimates that people living near a LLW disposal facility would be exposed to up to 10 mrem a year (see Council of Scientific Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association 26, 5, August 4, 1989, p. 670.). Also, D. Bartlett and J. Steele, in Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1985), state that the NRC acknowledged that the repository in Barnwell, South Carolina has dealt with material which was emitting up to 10,000 rems per hour (and a three-minute exposure would be lethal to a human being).
6. Public Law 96-573. For an in-depth review of the law, see Mary English, Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma (New York: Quorum Books, 1992).
7. L. Smiley, "Radioactive Waste Management in the United States," Radioactive Waste Management, Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the British Nuclear Energy Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984);
8. Richard C. Kearney, "Radioactive Waste Compacts: States Move Ahead," in Thad L. Beyle, ed., State Government: CQ's Guide to Current Issues and Activities 1988-1989 (Lexington, Kentucky: Council of State Governments, 1988);
9. Richard C. Kearney and John J. Stucker, "Interstate Compacts and the Management of Low Level Radioactive Waste," Public Administration Review, January/February, 1985;
10. Russell W. Riggs, "Radioactive Waste Compacts for the Northeastern States," The Journal of State Government 63, 3, July/September, 1990.
11. David L. Condon, "The Never Ending Story: Low-level Waste and the Exclusionary Authority of Non-compacting States," Natural Resources Journal, 30, Winter, 1990.
12. Alvin M. Weinberg, "Technology and Ecology - Is There a Need for Confrontation?" BioScience, 23, 1973, p. 43.
13. David Hawkins, Considerations of Environmental Protection Criteria for Radioactive Waste (Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1978), pp. 27-29.
14. William Ophuls, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1977), pp. 156-159.
15. See, for example, James Flynn and Paul Slovic, "Nuclear Wastes and Public Trust," Forum, 8, 1, Spring 1993.
16. Martin Heidegger, The Questions Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), p. 4.
17. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), p. 46.
18. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, "Ethical Dilemmas and Radioactive Waste: A Survey of the Issues," Environmental Ethics 13, 4, Winter, 1991.
19. R-E. Kasperson, Equity Issues in Radioactive Waste Management (Cambridge, MA: Oelgelschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1983).
20. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, op. cit., p. 335.
21. This is supported by Kent Portney, "Allaying the NIMBY Syndrome: The Potential for Compensation in Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting," Hazardous Waste 1, 1984; Michael O'Hare, "Not On My Block You Don't: Facility Siting and Strategic Importance of Compensation," Public Policy, 25, 1977; and Michael Elliot, "Improving Community Acceptance of Hazardous Waste Facilities Through Alternative System for Mitigating and Managing Risk," Hazardous Waste, 8, 1984.
22. This is supported by Kent Portney, "Allaying the NIMBY Syndrome: The Potential for Compensation in Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting," Hazardous Waste 1, 1984; Michael O'Hare, "Not On My Block You Don't: Facility Siting and Strategic Importance of Compensation," Public Policy, 25, 1977; and Michael Elliot, "Improving Community Acceptance of Hazardous Waste Facilities Through Alternative System for Mitigating and Managing Risk," Hazardous Waste, 8, 1984.
23. This is supported by Kent Portney, "Allaying the NIMBY Syndrome: The Potential for Compensation in Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting," Hazardous Waste 1, 1984; Michael O'Hare, "Not On My Block You Don't: Facility Siting and Strategic Importance of Compensation," Public Policy, 25, 1977; and Michael Elliot, "Improving Community Acceptance of Hazardous Waste Facilities Through Alternative System for Mitigating and Managing Risk," Hazardous Waste, 8, 1984.
24. As quoted in SF Weekly 10, 16, June, 19, 1991, p. 1.
25. R.E. Kasperson, op. cit.