The irresolution power: the policy of nuclear wastes

How a question, in appearance technical - the nuclear wastes development - can be transformed into a political problem? At which type of proof the governors are confronted when controversies show situations saturated with irreversibilities? How to discuss of 'indisputable' choices? Is the political action ineffective with regard to the weight of the past? Here are the questions presented in this book. In combining the contributions of the public action analysis and the sociology of the sciences and techniques, the author recalls the long history of the problem of nuclear wastes and analyzes the original treatment whose this question has been the subject for the political authorities. (O.M.)