Nuclear waste risk perceptions
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1. Introduction The siting of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is a highly controversial issue in most countries. So far, Finland [6; 9] and Sweden have been exceptions; for reviews see Sjöberg [13; 15]. The corporation responsible for finding a site and building a repository for SNF in Sweden, SKB, managed to find two promising host communities in 2001: Östhammar and Oskarshamn, two small communities on the Baltic coast which both are hosting nuclear industry 2. They had been the subjects of pilot studies pointing to a need for an in-depth site investigation, here called phase 2. This phase involves geological studies of the bedrock in chosen localities, and also follow-up studies of the social and psychological consequences of the siting process. The present paper reports some of the results from such a study, carried out in 2005, in Oskarshamn and Östhammar. Comparison data from 2001 will also be presented.
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