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Political construction of technology: Nuclear waste disposal in the US, 1945-1972
Author | A.A.Albert de la Bruhèze |
Date | May 1992 |
Classification | 3.01.4.10/01 (UNITED STATES - WASTE - GENERAL) |
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In the 1970s radioactive waste disposal became a controversial scientific and social issue in the United States, after the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), charged with the development, regulation and promotion of nuclear technology, had tried to implement its disposal technology near Lyons, Kansas. This study traces the emergence of this controversy as part of the long-term development of U.S. radioactive waste disposal technology. Radioactive waste was not always considered a problem, and different meanings were attached to radwaste in the 1940s and early 1950s. Problem definitions and technical designs that underlaid this technology can be reconstructed, and it is possible to show how some definitions received attention and others not, and how some became, and remained, dominant. During the process of problem definition, views compete, agendas are built, resources are allocated, and boundaries are created and maintained between an 'inside' and an 'outside world'. This is a political process, and by heuristically using concepts from political science and recent technology studies, the Political Construction of U.S. radioactive waste disposal technology can be reconstructed. Adri Albert de la Bruheze holds a degree in Political Science. His research was funded through a grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). He wrote his study while connected to the Department of Philosophy of Science and Technology (de Boerderij), school of Philosophy and Social Sciences, of the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
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