Waste is a terrible thing to mind
Subtitle: risk, radiation, and distrust of government : with a new preface
By: John Weingart.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; Rivergate Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780813542379
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal -- Political aspects -- New Jersey; Radioactive waste disposal -- Risk assessment -- Government policy -- New Jersey; Radioactive waste disposal -- United States -- States; Transparency in government -- United States
Notes: Originally published:  Princeton : Center for Analysis of Public Issues, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visualizing success; title: Radiation and risk; title: Multi-state compacts : seeking regional solutions; title: First steps : the New Jersey siting process begins; title: Connecticut and Illinois : the seeds of the voluntary siting process; title: "One tough job : peddling radioactive waste"; title: Culture; title: Lessons from Roosevelt; title: Elsinboro; title: Selling snake oil at rotary clubs; title: Nibbles; title: Hamburg helper, or "dump dangles big carrot"; title: Welcome to Allwayste; title: More nibbles; title: Planning for the general election; title: Barnwell returns; title: The Saturday paper; title: "Lower thumps dump"; title: "Somebody wants it"; title: Environmental justice and other lessons from Fairfield; title: Falling dominos; title: The poll; title: More planning for the election; title: O little town of Bethlehem; title: "An appalling lack of ignorance"; title: A bureaucrat's journal from April 28, 1997, to February 12, 1998; title: Postscript-November 1998; title: The problem is solved; title: In-state siting options; title: Other states : Utah, North Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, and California; title: High-level waste : the federal experience; title: Environmentalism and risk: have we met the enemy?; title: Fear of risk-it could happen; title: Fear of government; title: Making government work in a NIMBY age.