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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fear itself: Assessing the risks of transporting high-level nuclear waste
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis contrasts and compares two approaches to risk assessment as they apply to the problem of transporting high level radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, NV. Risk assessment, a lineal descendant of cost-benefit analysis, is an increasingly popular tool for justifying policy or programmatic decisions that involve some potential for public harm. The study uses Frank Fischer's framework for policy analysis to examine the problem of transportation risk assessment and to propose a new process for risk assessment that has political legitimacy, rather than technical elegance, as its goal.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Political Science
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 1998
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Dilger, Fred Carl
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jerry Simich
Rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/886
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1885