Eternal burden. The final disposal of radioactive wastes as social, political and scientific project - an introduction. 2. upd. and rev. ed.

The problem will occupy mankind for an unimaginably long time. What only a few generations of highly radioactive waste have produced, thousands of generations after us must seal off as safely as possible from the environment. There is not yet a single "repository" in operation worldwide. The great tidying up is continuously ignored, postponed or prevented. Why has the search for a site been in vain so far? Can upgraded interim storage facilities defuse the situation? In this introduction Achim Brunnengräber gives a well-founded overview of the scientific, technical and economic aspects of "final disposal" and deals with the social, political and democratic developments in this process. In the second, revised edition, it deals with institutional change, the Location Selection Act and the National Accompanying Body in Germany. The author thus prepares central lines of flight from the complex mixture of interests, responsibilities and participation claims and outlines possible solutions.