Nuclear community considering threats and benefits of final disposal. Local opinions regarding the spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland

Kojo, Matti; Kari, Mika; Litmanen, Tapio

doi:10.1504/ijetm.2012.047231

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“…In 2001, Olkiluoto, in the municipality of Eurajoki, already hosting two nuclear reactors, was selected as a site. It has been reported that an earlier survey of the three potential sites revealed significant public opposition once existed at this location but this opposition decreased over time (Kojo, Kari & Litmanen, 2012;. The EIA procedure represented a very important step preceding the licensing process and opened up citizen participation in planning processes.…”

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“…Additionally, the NEA points out that a site search is more promising when "nuclear communities" are involved because they trigger a long-term, sustainable relationship and local growth. However, this does not mean that these developments are always harmonious (Kojo et al, 2012). It is therefore legitimate to raise the question of whether taking up the burdens of the nuclear industry in the form of radioactive waste can be really explained as a sign of "cultural integration" and of familiarity with nuclear activities.…”

Section: Is Compensation Key For Voluntary Siting Processes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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In Whose Backyard? The Wicked Problem of Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories

Nucci¹,

Brunnengräber²

2017

European Policy Analysis

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This article focuses on the “wicked problem” of siting nuclear waste repositories. It addresses the question of why local communities are not willing to host nuclear waste facilities, and what factors play a decisive role for acceptance and voluntarism. We discuss the extent to which compensations together with trust could be decisive in easing the decision making processes for a site search. Starting from the assumption that voluntary processes have been the preferred path in countries in an advanced stage of planning or constructing a repository, we question whether the factors that allowed for success in siting in Finland, Sweden and France or for failure (United Kingdom) can be of use in other contexts, e.g., in Germany. By analyzing the relationship between government, industry and the communities willing to host repositories, we discuss different forms of voluntarism in combination with various site typologies, i.e., Blowers′ “nuclear oases”; “communities with industry awareness”; “nuclear communities”, and “Springfield communities.”

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Section: Finlandmentioning

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Section: Is Compensation Key For Voluntary Siting Processes?mentioning

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In Whose Backyard? The Wicked Problem of Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories

Nucci¹,

Brunnengräber²

2017

European Policy Analysis

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“…Kr€ utli et al 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017). Intragenerational and intergenerational injustice has been found to be influential in community debates on NWM (Kojo, Kari, and Litmanen 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017). Huang, Gray, and Bell (2013) discovered that the justice issues that opponents of nuclear waste siting in Taiwan experienced pertained to spatial and temporal injustice.…”

Section: Nuclear Waste Disposal Justice and Public Acceptance: Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

Vilhunen

Kojo

Litmanen

et al. 2019

Journal of Risk Research

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Final disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from nuclear power plants (NPPs) is an ethical issue with implications within and across generations. We address this issue from the perspective of nuclear communities that host nuclear waste disposal sites. These are primarily the communities that face injustice due to the potential radiological risks. A resident survey (n ¼ 454) was conducted in two Finnish nuclear communities, i.e. Eurajoki and Pyh€ ajoki, that are being considered as alternative sites for a second repository for SNF. The nuclear waste management (NWM) company Posiva is already building a repository in Eurajoki, the first in Finland. These communities are in different stages of their lifecycles as nuclear communities. We investigated the residents' conceptions of justice and trust regarding the repository SNF management and its main actors, and how these conceptions related to acceptance of the repository. The main findings show that residents of both communities perceived intragenerational and intergenerational injustices to be important in the procedures and the distribution of risks and benefits of the proposed repository. Claims regarding justice and trust were related to the acceptance of the repository. The community with the longer history with NWM expressed greater mistrust and perceived greater procedural injustice than the community with less earlier experience, whichin turnexpressed more concern over intragenerational distributive justice than the former community. Moreover, having longer history with NWM did not lead to a different understanding regarding responsibility toward future generations as resident's in both communities expressed similar concern over intergenerational justice. Moreover, having more experience of NWM did not enhance local acceptance. We emphasize that these results should be understood in the light of the prevailing situation in Finland, where the planning of the second repository is at a very early stage.

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“…Elsewhere, nuclear community is defined, for instance, as a municipality that is economically dependent and politically interrelated with the nuclear industry (Litmanen et al, 2010). Respectively, Kojo et al (2012) see nuclear communities as familiar with nuclear activities and conscious of their nuclear identity.…”

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“…For instance, there is research on the social antinuclear movement (Nelkin, 1971(Nelkin, , 1984 and major community resistance to proposals for new local development projects (McAvoy, 1999). Furthermore, opinions of local communities regarding the siting on nuclear facilities (Kojo, Kari, & Litmanen, 2012;Litmanen, Kojo, & Kari, 2010) and the perspectives of neighborhoods facing the siting of nuclear facilities have been examined (Blowers, Lowry, & Solomon, 1991;Eiser, Spears, & Van Der Plight, 1995). Moreover, there is research on increased risk awareness in communities near nuclear facilities (Pidgeon, Kasperson, & Slovic, 2003) and the negative labeling of nuclear sites (Easterling, 2001).…”

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The Social Construction of Nuclear Community

Hänninen

Yli-Kauhaluoma

2014

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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ONKALO, the world's first repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel, is being constructed in Eurajoki, Finland. We study how the constructor of this facility portrays it to the local community in order to influence lay understanding of the disposal risk, build trust, and gain public approval for the construction project. The study is based on a framing analysis of the newsletters published by the constructor of the facility in 2000-2014. The results suggest that the nuclear industry has developed increasing understanding of the social and communal aspects of public resistance to nuclear power. To create trust and to increase acceptance locally the industry is socially constructing a nuclear community around the repository. The gap between the nuclear experts and the local residents is narrowed and the repository is portrayed as being a shared project within the local community advancing the common interests of the industry and the residents. This may represent a new trend in pronuclear storytelling.

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Nuclear community considering threats and benefits of final disposal. Local opinions regarding the spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland

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In Whose Backyard? The Wicked Problem of Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories

In Whose Backyard? The Wicked Problem of Siting Nuclear Waste Repositories

Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

The Social Construction of Nuclear Community

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