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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Who Wants the Waste?--A Meeting in Stockholm, 1996 | |
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| A Critical Matter | |
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| Matter Out of Place | |
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| Analysing the Place of Matter | |
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| Experts in Modern Societies | |
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| Sweden, Nuclear Power, and Nuclear Waste | |
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| Multi-Barrier Agreements | |
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| The Contested U.S. Programme | |
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| The Famous Swedish Programme | |
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| Comparing Siting Strategies | |
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| Outline and Objectives | |
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| Author's Position | |
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| Constructing a Theoretical Framework | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Controversies and Consensus: Science and Political Decision-Making | |
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| The Construction of Controversies and Consensus | |
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| The Politics of Constructing Controversies and Consensus: The Dilemma of S&TS? | |
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| The Discovery of Nuclear Waste | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Early History of Radioactive Waste | |
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| The Early Swedish Context | |
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| The Role of Experts in the Early Swedish Nuclear Era | |
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| The First Principles of Nuclear Waste Disposal | |
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| Nuclear Waste: The Achilles' Heel of Nuclear Power | |
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| Interpreting Absolute Safety | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Science vs. Policy | |
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| A New Government and a New Act | |
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| The Regulation of the Ringhals 3 Reactor | |
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| The Review Process | |
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| The Government's Interpretation of the Act | |
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| The New Application | |
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| The National Referendum as a Final Solution | |
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| Science vs. Policy in the Regulation of the Ringhals 3 Reactor | |
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| Politicians Using Experts | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| No Particular Place to Go | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The KBS 3 Concept and Another New Act | |
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| The R&D Programmes 1986-1995: Two Strategies of Siting | |
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| One Strategy of Siting? | |
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| Explaining the Strategies | |
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| Rationalism | |
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| Cultural Theory | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Geologists Mapping Bedrock | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Investigations | |
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| KBS Geological Investigations | |
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| KBS Supplementary Investigation | |
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| KBS 3, Aspo Hard Rock Laboratory and the SKB R&D Programmes | |
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| Geological Interpretations | |
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| Networking Geologists | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Myth of Democracy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Public Acceptance | |
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| Swedish Democracy: Corporatism | |
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| Democracy in Theory | |
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| Legislation, Decision Making and Democracy | |
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| Feasibility Democracy | |
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| The Municipality of Storuman | |
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| The Municipality of Mala | |
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| Municipalities Hosting Nuclear Facilities | |
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| The Municipality of Nykoping | |
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| The Municipality of Osthammar | |
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| The Municipality of Oskarshamn | |
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| The Oskarshamn Youth Opinion | |
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| The Municipalities of Tierp, Hultsfred and Alvkarleby | |
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| Feasible Democracy and Strategic Actions | |
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| National Coordination | |
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| SKB's Choice of Site Investigations | |
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| Acceptability: The Myth of Democracy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Regulating Technological Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rocks and Marmalade | |
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| The Myth of Science and the Myth of Democracy | |
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| Science, Technology and the Construction of Society | |
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| Opening the Black Box of Swedish Nuclear Waste Management | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |