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Political construction of technology: Nuclear waste disposal in the US, 1945-1972

AuteurA.A.Albert de la Bruhèze
Datummei 1992
Classificatie 3.01.4.10/01 (VS - AFVAL)
Voorkant

Uit de publicatie:

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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