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Decidedly Different: Expert and Public Views of Risks from a Radioactive Waste Repository
Author(s) -
Flynn James,
Slovic Paul,
Mertz C. K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1993.tb01326.x
Subject(s) - radioactive waste , waste management , high level waste , construction engineering , engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , business , environmental science , forensic engineering
A questionnaire with items that had been used in a national survey of the general public was administered to persons attending an American Nuclear Society meeting. The items asked about risks associated with high‐level nuclear waste (HLNW), trust in nuclear‐waste program managers, costs and benefits of a repository project, and images of a HLNW repository. The results suggest that nuclear industry experts may have very different opinions from the general public about most of these items and their images of a repository indicate a vastly different conceptual framework within which their opinions are formed.