Preface

1. Introduction and summary

2.Waste in The Netherlands

3. Ethics
3.1  Ethics
3.2  Two ethical theories
3.2.1 Utilitarianism
3.2.2 The ethics of justice
3.3  Justice to the present generation
3.4 Justification to future generations
3.5  Justification for the production of nuclear waste
3.6  The ethical principles of the IAEA and the NEA on the management of nuclear waste
3.6.1 IAEA
3.6.2 NEA

4. Sustainable development
4.1  Sustainable development
4.2  Sustainable energy supply
4.3  Nuclear waste and sustainability

5.  Risk society, acceptance and risk perception
5.1 Risk society
5.2 Risk acceptance
5.3 Risk perception
5.3.1 Definition of risk
5.3.2 Judgment on risk in nuclear waste

6. Marking

7. Retrievability
7.1 Government’s policy on retrievability
7.2 Ethics, sustainability, risk perception marking and retrievability

8. Analysis of interviews

9. Conclusions and recommendations