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Combatting Nuclear Power: Discourses of Justice, the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement, and the Struggle for Energy Justice (2014)

Auteur	J.P.van Gerven
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Datum	juni 2014
Classificatie	3.01.2.19/20 (VS - ANTIKERNENERGIEBEWEGING/ACTIES/REPRESSIE)

COMBATING NUCLEAR POWER: DISCOURSES OF JUSTICE, THE
ANTI-NUCLEAR POWER MOVEMENT, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR
ENERGY JUSTICE
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A Dissertation
Presented to
The Faculty of the Graduate School
At the University of Missouri
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In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
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By
JESSE P. VAN GERVEN
Dr. Clarence Lo, Dissertation Supervisor
JULY 2014


ABSTRACT
In the present study, I critically analyze the anti-nuclear power movement (or 
the movement for a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future) in the U.S. 
using an environmental justice framework. I aim to explore how different 
conceptualizations/discourses of social and environmental justice are constructed 
through the claims of social movement organizations on both the national and 
local levels of the movement. My analyses of national and local level anti-
nuclear organizations’ claims focuses on issues regarding the public financing 
of new nuclear construction (through federal “loan guarantees” or CWIP charges),
as well as on issues of the management of high-level radioactive waste and other
campaigns to increase the safety of nuclear facilities. Throughout these analyses
I show how ideas of distribution, recognition, and representation help structure,
and are reconstructed through, the arguments made by antinuclear groups against 
the production of nuclear power. My goal is that through critical analyses of the 
claims made by the anti-nuclear power movement in the U.S., as well as analyses 
of the historical/structural conditions these claims were made in response to, I 
am able to distill general principals of what could be termed “energy justice”. 
The identification of general principles of energy justice, similar to the 
Principles of Environmental Justice, could potentially guide future energy policy 
and energy systems to ensure social and environmental justice are maximized.

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