Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Summary -- APPROACH OF THIS STUDY -- MAJOR SOCIOECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS -- A. Public Response -- B. The Waste Management Network -- C. Site Effects -- D. Institutional Issues -- MAJOR FINDINGS -- 2 Public Concerns -- THE DATA BASE -- THE EMERGENCE OF PUBLIC CONCERNS -- DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF PUBLIC CONCERN -- THE CAUSES OF PUBLIC CONCERN: ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES -- Fear -- THE NATURE OF HAZARD -- VALUE CONFLICT -- INSTITUTIONAL CREDIBILITY AND DISTRUST -- METHODOLOGICAL AND DATA-BASE LIMITATIONS -- FINDINGS -- REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 2 -- 3 The Waste Management Network: The Role of Transportation and Repository Location -- THE WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN OPERATION -- A REFERENCE CASE -- The Waste Funnel -- System Characteristics -- A SINGLE, CENTRALIZED REPOSITORY OR A REGIONAL SYSTEM? -- Costs -- Social and Institutional Effects -- TEMPORARY STORAGE PRIOR TO PERMANENT ISOLATION -- Costs -- Institutional Effects -- TRANSPORT MODE -- FINDINGS -- REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 3 -- 4 The Waste Repository Site: Characteristics and Socioeconomic Considerations -- THE REPOSITORY SITE: A DESCRIPTION -- CONVENTIONAL EFFECTS -- Economic Effects -- Environmental and Health Effects -- Locational Costs and Effects -- Social Change -- Local Institutional Effects -- SPECIAL EFFECTS -- INFLUENCE OF TIME AND DISTANCE ON WASTE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES -- LOCAL EFFECTS ALONG TRANSPORT CORRIDORS -- MITIGATION AND COMPENSATION -- FINDINGS -- REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 4 -- 5 Institutional Means -- INSTITUTIONAL THEMES IN THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1982 -- State/Local Institutional Structure -- Management for Operations -- Dispute Handling -- PUBLIC PARTICIPATION -- REGULATION OF TRANSPORTATION -- FINDINGS -- REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 5.

Appendix A: Spent-Fuel Transportation Analysis for the National Academy of Sciences -- Appendix B: Supplementary Comments Chapter 5 -- REFERENCE FOR APPENDIX B.