Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: trust, cost and social acceptability

Business & Economics

• Nuclear Waste 97%
• Acceptability 64%
• Disposal 60%
• Costs 22%
• Waste Disposal 21%
• Path Dependency 8%
• Voluntarism 8%
• Public Involvement 8%
• Temporality 7%
• Geographic Distribution 7%
• Site Selection 7%
• Social Control 7%
• Technology Choice 6%
• Cost Overrun 6%
• Technical Analysis 6%
• Technology Strategy 6%
• Repository 5%
• Accountability 5%
• Land Use 5%
• Exclusion 5%
• Efficacy 5%
• Alternatives 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Radioactive wastes 72%
• Waste disposal 69%
• Boreholes 65%
• Costs 22%
• Formal Social Control 13%
• Radioactive waste disposal 12%
• Site selection 10%
• Plutonium 9%
• Land use 8%
• Spent fuels 8%
• Decision making 5%

Social Sciences

• Boreholes 100%
• costs 33%
• waste disposal 29%
• voluntarism 10%
• social control 7%
• land use 7%
• exclusion 5%
• regime 5%