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2002, Environment & Policy
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This book focuses on the complex issue of nuclear waste management through the lens of local democracy and public opinion. It synthesizes research conducted over a decade, highlighting the importance of community engagement and the role of scientific guidance in addressing public concerns. The author reflects on collaborative efforts that contributed to this work and provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and considerations in establishing effective nuclear waste policies.
This article offers a rhetorical perspective on the Swedish project of nuclear waste management – how inventio has been shaped throughout the project, with focus on alignment of perspectives and adaptation of argument to achieve a solution to an urgent problem – fi nding a location for spent nuclear fuel repository. The study fi nds that the organizations representing the " environmental " perspective have gradually (1970s-2010s) integrated the argumentation of the nuclear industry into their own position. Also the treatment of " environment " as a material ground for argument has changed over the years – from a separated topic for the critics of the repository project, to a commonplace argument, and from a local value to a political notion. Niniejszy artykuł przyjmuje perspektywę retoryczną w badaniu dyskursu na temat odpadów radioaktyw-nych w Szwecji. Sprawdza on jak kształtowane jest inventio w publicznej debacie nad lokalizacją depozytu odpadów nuklearnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem procesu adaptacji argumentów i uzgadniania wspólnych pozycji miedzy stroną pro-ekologiczną i stroną instytucjonalną. Badanie wykazuje jak organizacje ekologiczne stopniowo (od lat 1970tych do 2010-tych) zintegrowały swoją argumentację z postulatami przemysłu nuklearnego. Zmieniało się między innymi użycie argumentu ochrony środowiska naturalnego: z kluczowej przesłanki materialnej do formalnego toposu, oraz z wartości lokalnej wspólnoty po konstrukt polityczny.
Environmental Politics, 2011
This article offers a rhetorical perspective on the Swedish project of nuclear waste management – how inventio has been shaped throughout the project, with focus on alignment of perspectives and adaptation of argument to achieve a solution to an urgent problem – finding a location for spent nuclear fuel repository. The study finds that the organizations representing the " environmental " perspective have gradually (1970s-2010s) integrated the argumentation of the nuclear industry into their own position. Also the treatment of " environment " as a material ground for argument has changed over the years – from a separated topic for the critics of the repository project, to a commonplace argument, and from a local value to a political notion. Niniejszy artykuł przyjmuje perspektywę retoryczną w badaniu dyskursu na temat odpadów radioaktywnych w Szwecji. Sprawdza on, jak kształtowane jest inventio w publicznej debacie nad lokalizacją depozytu odpadów nuklearnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem procesu adaptacji argumentów i uzgadniania wspólnych pozycji miedzy stroną pro-ekologiczną i stroną instytucjonalną. Badanie wykazuje, jak organizacje ekologiczne stopniowo (od lat 1970. do 2010.) zintegrowały swoją argumentację z postulatami przemysłu nuklearnego. Zmieniało się między innymi użycie argumentu ochrony środowiska naturalnego: z kluczowej przesłanki materialnej do formalnego toposu, oraz z wartości lokalnej wspólnoty po konstrukt polityczny.
Science as Culture, 2019
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy is just what is intended to be overcome, not positively indulged. Albert Hirschman's distinction between divisible and non-divisible conflicts captures such varying evaluations of controversy. In particular, it helps analyse how the long-standing fix of geological disposal of nuclear waste has been persistently defended as a non-negotiable object of technological concerna recipe for escaping controversy by permanently isolating nuclear waste from the biosphere. Comparing the Swedish and French programmes for the geological disposal of nuclear waste shows how defending the technological integrity of a non-divisible disposal concept has remained an institutional fixation for Swedish nuclear waste management for over 30 years. In contrast, legislative demands for a reversible disposal concept introduced in France in the late 1990s have arguably served to unravel a technological fix into a divisible object of collective concern.
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