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Markku Lehtonen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the roles of the state and social licence to operate lessons from Nuclear Waste Management in finland france and sweden
Energy research and social science, 2020Co-Authors: Tapio Litmanen, Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo, Tuija Jartti, Mika KariAbstract:Abstract The concept of social licence to operate (SLO) is an increasingly popular tool for companies to manage their relations with the local communities. SLO is very seldom used in the Nuclear sector, which has nevertheless applied similar approaches, under notions such as partnership and participatory governance. This article explores the specific challenges that the application of SLO faces in the Nuclear Waste Management (NWM) sector, by applying an often-used SLO framework of Boutilier and Thomson to illustrative case studies concerning Nuclear Waste repository projects in Finland, France and Sweden. Among the specificities of this sector, the article focuses on the central roles of the state in the governance of a project designed as a local solution to a national, even a global problem, entailing extremely long-term challenges, in a context when the state has a vested interest in the project obtaining an SLO. The article suggests that state-related elements be added to the four key criteria of the Boutilier and Thomson framework, which consists of economic and socio-political legitimacy, and interactional and institutionalised trust. To account for the diversity of settings, such as the ‘high-trust’ contexts of Finland and Sweden and the French ‘society of mistrust’, further analysis and conceptual refinement are needed, especially concerning the multiple dimensions of trust and mistrust, the relationships between legal, political, and social licences, and the specific challenges of intergenerational justice in SLO work.
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megaproject underway governance of Nuclear Waste Management in france
2015Co-Authors: Markku LehtonenAbstract:Given France’s role as a Nuclear energy “superpower”, with 58 Nuclear reactors supplying 75% of the electricity consumed in the country, the current French plans for the creation of a deep geological disposal repository for intermediatelevel long-lived and high-level radioactive Waste (ILW-LL and HLW) have been generating worldwide interest. The search for a site has been ongoing since the late 1970s, when the government declared deep geological disposal as the preferred option for radioactive Waste Management. However, like in many other countries where Nuclear power is used, the site investigations conducted in the late 1980s generated intense local opposition, prompting the government to declare a one-year moratorium on the search of a site in 1990. After extensive consultation, the Parliament adopted a law on the Management of radioactive Waste in 1991; it was the country’s first law on Nuclear power.
Goran Sundqvist - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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meddling in swedish success in Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Politics, 2011Co-Authors: Mark Elam, Goran SundqvistAbstract:Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish Nuclear Waste Management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than...
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demonstrating Nuclear fuel safety validating new build the enduring template of swedish Nuclear Waste Management
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Mark Elam, Linda Soneryd, Goran SundqvistAbstract:Since the 1970s, the template for Swedish Nuclear Waste Management has been for industry to deliver “Nuclear fuel safety” after first demonstrating to government authority how and where it can be achieved. In other words, Nuclear fuel safety has been something to be publicly witnessed before it is decided whether or not industry should be allowed to carry on implementing its plans. From the outset, these industry plans encompassed the completion of the Swedish Nuclear power programme itself, as this was made contingent upon a demonstrated solution to the Waste problem. However, after a national referendum on the future of Nuclear power in 1980, industrial progress in Nuclear fuel safety became directly connected with a safe phase out of a 12-reactor programme within 25 years of its completion. As plans for such a phase out have in turn grown subject to indefinite postponement, and as opposition to Nuclear power has progressively mellowed, so the Nuclear industry's highly resilient Nuclear fuel safety prog...
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on the right track technology geology and society in swedish Nuclear Waste Management
Journal of Risk Research, 2004Co-Authors: Rolf Lidskog, Goran SundqvistAbstract:Although many countries with Nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of Nuclear Waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for Nuclear Waste Management (NWM). Facilities for the final storage for low‐ and intermediate‐level Waste and the interim storage for high‐level Waste have been located, constructed and put into operation without any strong opposition at either national or local level. Furthermore, the work during the last decade to find a place for the final disposal of high‐level Waste has also been done without any great impediments. The aim of this paper is to analyse Sweden's Nuclear Waste Management, in particular why it seems to have been so easily implemented. By a historical analysis of some for...
Nishesh Kumar Gupta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ionic liquids for transuranic extraction truex recent developments in Nuclear Waste Management a review
Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018Co-Authors: Nishesh Kumar GuptaAbstract:Abstract Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are considered as a replacement of molecular diluents in the extraction of metal ions from an aqueous phase. Owing to their good radiolytic stability and higher extraction efficacy, RTILs have been extensively studied for the extraction of actinides and lanthanides from Nuclear Waste solutions. The underlying chemistry behind actinide extraction in RTILs is challenging because of complexity in understanding the extraction mechanisms and species involved in the extraction process. At the same time, the lesser-known extraction behaviour of transuranic elements (TUE) (Np, Pu, Am, and Cm) in RTILs needs to be highlighted. In the interest of readers, a review focusing on the extraction of TUE in RTILs has been presented here. This review aims to provide valuable information about the thermodynamics, extraction profiles, and mechanisms of TUE extraction in RTILs. Moreover, an insightful discussion on the radiolytic stability of RTILs has been included in this review.
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biosorption an alternative method for Nuclear Waste Management a critical review
Journal of environmental chemical engineering, 2018Co-Authors: Nishesh Kumar Gupta, Arijit Sengupta, Anjali Gupta, Jagruti Ravindra Sonawane, Harekrushna SahooAbstract:Abstract Separation scientists and radiochemists aim to recover valuable long-lived radionuclides from high-level Nuclear Waste solution before its safe geological disposal. In last few years, researchers have exploited biosorption for Nuclear Waste Management as an alternative to conventional liquid–liquid separation techniques. This review outlines various methods employed for the preparation of biosorbents. Importantly, Nuclear Waste treatment using biosorbents has been discussed in detail along with adsorption mechanisms. The main objective of this review is to provide vital information on the developments that have been made so far in the domain of biosorption, exclusively for Nuclear Waste Management
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mwcnts based sorbents for Nuclear Waste Management a review
Journal of environmental chemical engineering, 2017Co-Authors: Arijit Sengupta, Nishesh Kumar GuptaAbstract:Abstract Multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) based adsorbents have high sorption efficacy, fast sorption rate, selectivity, and reusability. All these features highlight that MWCNTs based adsorbents are excellent sorbents for the removal of toxic pollutants like heavy metals, organic pollutants etc. from industrial Waste solutions. On the same line, these adsorbents have been utilized for the preconcentration/separation of the f-elements from Nuclear Waste solutions. This review outlines various methods that have been employed for the preparation of functionalized MWCNTs and MWCNTs based composites. Importantly, here an overview of applications of MWCNTs based adsorbents for the preconcentration/removal of f-elements from Nuclear Waste solutions have been discussed in detail. The main objective of this review is to provide valuable information on the developments that have been made so far for the separation of lanthanides and actinides from the Nuclear Waste solutions.
Mika Kari - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the roles of the state and social licence to operate lessons from Nuclear Waste Management in finland france and sweden
Energy research and social science, 2020Co-Authors: Tapio Litmanen, Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo, Tuija Jartti, Mika KariAbstract:Abstract The concept of social licence to operate (SLO) is an increasingly popular tool for companies to manage their relations with the local communities. SLO is very seldom used in the Nuclear sector, which has nevertheless applied similar approaches, under notions such as partnership and participatory governance. This article explores the specific challenges that the application of SLO faces in the Nuclear Waste Management (NWM) sector, by applying an often-used SLO framework of Boutilier and Thomson to illustrative case studies concerning Nuclear Waste repository projects in Finland, France and Sweden. Among the specificities of this sector, the article focuses on the central roles of the state in the governance of a project designed as a local solution to a national, even a global problem, entailing extremely long-term challenges, in a context when the state has a vested interest in the project obtaining an SLO. The article suggests that state-related elements be added to the four key criteria of the Boutilier and Thomson framework, which consists of economic and socio-political legitimacy, and interactional and institutionalised trust. To account for the diversity of settings, such as the ‘high-trust’ contexts of Finland and Sweden and the French ‘society of mistrust’, further analysis and conceptual refinement are needed, especially concerning the multiple dimensions of trust and mistrust, the relationships between legal, political, and social licences, and the specific challenges of intergenerational justice in SLO work.
Mark Elam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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meddling in swedish success in Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Politics, 2011Co-Authors: Mark Elam, Goran SundqvistAbstract:Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish Nuclear Waste Management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than...
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demonstrating Nuclear fuel safety validating new build the enduring template of swedish Nuclear Waste Management
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Mark Elam, Linda Soneryd, Goran SundqvistAbstract:Since the 1970s, the template for Swedish Nuclear Waste Management has been for industry to deliver “Nuclear fuel safety” after first demonstrating to government authority how and where it can be achieved. In other words, Nuclear fuel safety has been something to be publicly witnessed before it is decided whether or not industry should be allowed to carry on implementing its plans. From the outset, these industry plans encompassed the completion of the Swedish Nuclear power programme itself, as this was made contingent upon a demonstrated solution to the Waste problem. However, after a national referendum on the future of Nuclear power in 1980, industrial progress in Nuclear fuel safety became directly connected with a safe phase out of a 12-reactor programme within 25 years of its completion. As plans for such a phase out have in turn grown subject to indefinite postponement, and as opposition to Nuclear power has progressively mellowed, so the Nuclear industry's highly resilient Nuclear fuel safety prog...
