Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste Governance Perspectives after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Brunnengräber, Achim; Schreurs, Miranda A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-08962-7_2

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“…As shown by various studies related to the financing of RW storage and disposal, in the countries, where nuclear energy is coordinated by the public sector (in Russia, Germany, and Bulgaria), tariffs are set by the government. When in developed countries, the companies can create a pricing policy for RW disposal services independently (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, 2016;Balogh and Jámbor, 2017;Brunnengräber and Schreurs, 2015;Edwards et al, 2019;Hong et al, 2018). Researchers are convinced that new projects and technologies proposed by the Russian Federal Agency on Atomic Energy can cause a high risk.…”

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Nuclear Power Production: The Future or the Past?

Kashurnikov

Prasolov

Gorbanyov

et al. 2020

IJEEP

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Over the past 20 years, the share of nuclear energy in global electricity production decreased from 17.6% to 10%. The article highlights the financial challenges of the RW repository, the synergistic combination of all investments, and the development of a forecasting model for the cost of RW storage and disposal. The control and management of cash flows between financial resources in the field of nuclear energy create new development vectors and define trends for the international nuclear industry and markets. The objective of the article is to analyze the future development of nuclear energy by applying a predictive approach in the context of the limited risk distributor (LRD) business management model. The present paper analyses the trends in the global development of nuclear energy, the political background of the RW disposal, types of radioactive wastes, and their burial in Russia. The results achieved allow improving the typical LRD model for managing international nuclear enterprises by limiting the influence of commercial interests. However, a key problem of improving the efficiency of public and private investment was noted. A vague understanding of methods and forms of investment causes inefficiency and a lack of internal logic of the financing process.

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“…For the Russian Federation, this issue remains tough since the bureaucratic intervention in the process of RWM. Thus, the nuclear industry occupies an ambiguous position in the country's policy (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, 2016;Balogh and Jámbor, 2017;Brunnengräber and Schreurs, 2015;Edwards et al, 2019;Hong et al, 2018).…”

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Nuclear Power Production: The Future or the Past?

Kashurnikov

Prasolov

Gorbanyov

et al. 2020

IJEEP

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“…The nuclear waste disposal issue in Fukushima, Japan, is a good example. If a large amount of nuclear waste was dumped into the Pacific Ocean, it would undoubtedly cause a fatal blow to the human-marine ecological environment [1][2][3]. It is well known that safe nuclear waste disposal is crucial for humans to avoid radioactive radiation [4][5][6].…”

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Study on the Dynamic Stability of an Underground Engineering Rock Mass with a Fault-Slip Seismic Source: Case Study of a URL Exploration Tunnel

Lan

Yang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The application of fault-slip seismic sources is critical to the success of ground motion dynamic response analysis. Previous research established a finite seismic source to analyze stability in underground engineering. In this paper, a sophisticated numerical method based on the distinct element method (3DEC) is proposed to simulate the fault-slip seismic sources of an underground research laboratory (URL) exploration tunnel. Two indices, i.e., the peak ground velocity (PGV) and the strain energy density (SED), are used to analyze the sensitivity of the seismic source types, the seismic source radius, and the rupture velocities of the rock mass dynamic response. The simulation results indicate that a circular seismic source can be used so that the boundary produces a small singularity, with the seismic source having a remarkable influence on the PGV and SED. In addition, we consider that the rupture velocity is more suitable for engineering practices. A simulation method has been developed that allows the rock mass stability of a URL to be further explored.

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“…Nuclear waste management is one of the sectors where this turn was institutionalized by moving from a predominantly expert-based approach to participatory practices involving experts, citizens, and stakeholders (Bergmans et al 2014; Sundqvist and Elam 2010; Johnson 2007). European and national nuclear waste management projects were funded to allow for a variety of new processes and deliberative procedures (Brunnengräber and Di Nucci 2019; Brunnengräber et al 2015) and to address a wide array of governance issues such as: how can nuclear societies design sociotechnical solutions to deal with an object that is toxic for humans and the environment with a half-life that seems endless? What are the relevant dimensions that constitute the best option to deal with nuclear waste, according to whom?…”

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The Efficacy Paradox Revisited: “Closing Up” Commitments in Nuclear Waste Governance

Parotte

Macq

Delvenne

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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It is well established in science and technology studies that participation and expert analysis should not be seen as contradictory. Key analytical questions include how both public and expert knowledge contribute to “closing down” and “opening up” appraisals and commitments, and how important these dynamics are in assessing the process and the conditions of democratizing technology. This article examines how the participatory turn has affected nuclear waste governance options in France and Canada. Through cross-case analysis, it describes how at each constitutive step of management programs, public and expert knowledge has followed a variety of pathways in (in)forming commitments, resulting in asymmetrical trade-offs. The term “closing up commitment” is introduced to refer to the way both national governments finally opted for closing the technological options at hand while introducing new conditions that might challenge future actions. We argue that paying attention to this mutation in nuclear governance allows for a more detailed analysis of power distributions in science and technology governance than a critical approach that rejects any closure because it can be (and often is) the result of an instrumental approach undertaken by the incumbent actors.

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Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste Governance Perspectives after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Nuclear Power Production: The Future or the Past?

Nuclear Power Production: The Future or the Past?

Study on the Dynamic Stability of an Underground Engineering Rock Mass with a Fault-Slip Seismic Source: Case Study of a URL Exploration Tunnel

The Efficacy Paradox Revisited: “Closing Up” Commitments in Nuclear Waste Governance

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