Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Visualizing success
  • Radiation and risk
  • Multi-state compacts : seeking regional solutions
  • First steps : the New Jersey siting process begins
  • Connecticut and Illinois : the seeds of the voluntary siting process
  • "One tough job : peddling radioactive waste"
  • Culture
  • Lessons from Roosevelt
  • Elsinboro
  • Selling snake oil at rotary clubs
  • Nibbles
  • Hamburg helper, or "dump dangles big carrot"
  • Welcome to Allowayste
  • More nibbles
  • Planning for the general election
  • Barnwell returns
  • The Saturday paper
  • "Lower thumps dump"
  • "Somebody wants it"
  • Environmental justice and other lessons from Fairfield
  • Falling dominos
  • The poll
  • More planning for the election
  • O little town of Bethlehem
  • "An appalling lack of ignorance"
  • A bureaucrat's journal from April 28, 1997, to February 12, 1998
  • Postscript--November 1998
  • The problem is solved
  • In-state siting options
  • Other states : Utah, North Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, and California
  • High-level waste : the federal experience
  • Environmentalism and risk: have we met the enemy?
  • Fear of risk--it could happen
  • Fear of government
  • Making government work in a NIMBY age.