Calculated Risks
Subtitle: Highly Radioactive Waste and Homeland Security
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: November 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780754671336
Subjects: Hazardous waste treatment & disposal; International relations; Peace studies; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Government policy; Management; Radioactive waste disposal; Radioactive wastes; Risk assessment; United States
Description: "This study examines one of the increasingly pressing problems for U.S. homeland security: the storage and management of radioactive waste. Despite pressing homeland security and energy security concerns associated with highly radioactive waste, political considerations have prevented policymakers from adopting adequate long-term solutions to the problem. This book explores nuclear waste problems through the broader lens of federal and local government and the resultant constraints on policy that emerge within the American political system. Presenting specific case studies to highlight the deficiencies in current policy and planning, as well as the possibility of terrorist activity, it is highly suited to courses on security studies and environmental politics."--Jacket.