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Negotiating Eternity: Energy Policy, Environmental Justice, and the Politics of Nuclear Waste

University of St. Thomas

Arguing that a crisis is upon us, the Bush Administration has proposed an energy strategy remarkable in its scope and audacity. While much criticism has been directed towards the plan’s ecological impacts, it also guarantees the continuing collapse of communities tha stand in the way of the full realization of the current energy economy. This situation is best understood reference to evolving notions of environmental justice. Unfortunately, the variety of meanings attributable to environmental justice often times come into conflict when applied to specific cases. Until a way is found to reconcile the idea’s many diverse meanings and to prevent one or another to be used in a specific institutional context to the exclusion of all others, environmental justice will, in a perverse way, be turned into yet another means to disregard society’s most vulnerable members.

Key Words: Environmental justice • Ghoshute • nuclear power • Nuclear Regulatory Commission • Yucca Mountain

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 21, No. 6, 456-472 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/027046760102100604


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