A contribution to the analysis of equity associated with high-level radioactive waste management

Kermisch, Céline; Depaus, Christophe; Labeau, Pierre-Etienne

doi:10.1016/j.pnucene.2016.05.010

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“…Adopting the Foucauldian perspective of state reason, it is instructive to analyze how the different considerations regarding the acceptability of HLW management options are translated into measurable and comparable units of "force." At the root of this translation lie the internationally accepted principles of radiation protection which were established initially by the International Commission of Radiation Protection (ICRP) in the recommendation of Publication 26 of 1977, and have over the years been further specified for different application contexts (Kermisch & Depaus, 2018;Kermisch et al, 2016):…”

Section: State-technical Mediation: Geological Disposal As a Technology For The Common Goodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For deciding on acceptable HLW management options, NIRAS/ONDRAF operationalizes these principles using the ethical matrix method (Kermisch & Depaus, 2018;Kermisch et al, 2016). Practically, an ethical matrix is a two-dimensional table which combines affected stylized stakeholders (e.g., "local communities," "society in general," "the environment," "on-site workers," and "waste producers") and moral values (e.g., "well-being," "informed consent," and "equity") in order to clarify the ethically relevant issues associated with options for managing HLW.…”

Section: State-technical Mediation: Geological Disposal As a Technology For The Common Goodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective

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Bombaerts

2021

Philos. Technol.

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This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the normative ethics approaches that prevail in the literature. Building on previous insights derived from mediation theory (in particular the work of Verbeek and Dorrestijn), Foucault and science and technology studies (in particular Jasanoff’s work on socio-technical imaginaries), mediation theory’s appropriation of Foucauldian insights is shown to be in need of modification and further extension. In particular, we modify Dorrestijn’s figure of “technical determination of power relations” to better take into account the (literal and figurative) aspects of imagination, and complement Dorrestijn’s work with the figures of techno-scientific mediation, and the inherently political figures of socio-technical and state-technical mediation, both based on Foucault’s notion of governmentality. Our analysis implies that the practical implementation of a high-level nuclear waste (HLW) management strategy will require the “stitching together” of these different mediations, which is an inherently political task.

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Section: State-technical Mediation: Geological Disposal As a Technology For The Common Goodmentioning

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Section: State-technical Mediation: Geological Disposal As a Technology For The Common Goodmentioning

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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective

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Bombaerts

2021

Philos. Technol.

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“…From a spatial standpoint, sustainability is about the fair distribution of well-being among contemporaries, with a special focus on the needs of the least well-off groups. When it comes to nuclear energy, we might for instance think of distribution of well-being among workers or local communities compared to members of society as a whole [3][4][5]. Intragenerational justice is at stake in that case.…”

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“…Some differences do also occur within remote future generations, notably between future generations who still have the memory of the waste, its location and how to handle it, and future generations who have lost that memory [5]. Of course, it is impossible to foresee when the memory of the waste will be lost, but we may reasonably assume that it will not be before 500 years [48], p. 30).…”

Section: High-level Radioactive Waste Managementmentioning

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Sustainability, Ethics and Nuclear Energy: Escaping the Dichotomy

Kermisch

Taebi

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:In this paper we suggest considering sustainability as a moral framework based on social justice, which can be used to evaluate technological choices. In order to make sustainability applicable to discussions of nuclear energy production and waste management, we focus on three key ethical questions, namely: (i) what should be sustained; (ii) why should we sustain it; and (iii) for whom should we sustain it. This leads us to conceptualize the notion of sustainability as a set of values, including safety, security, environmental benevolence, resource durability, and economic viability of the technology. The practical usefulness of sustainability as a moral framework is highlighted by demonstrating how it is applicable for understanding intergenerational dilemmas-between present and future generations, but also among different future generations-related to nuclear fuel cycles and radioactive waste management.

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Radioactive Waste

Kermisch¹

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability

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A contribution to the analysis of equity associated with high-level radioactive waste management

Cited by 14 publications

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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective

Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective

Sustainability, Ethics and Nuclear Energy: Escaping the Dichotomy

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