Compensation or Bribery? Ethical Issues in Relation to Radwaste Host Communities

摘要: Abstract Radioactive waste management and disposal raises complex multilayered ethical issues, achieving acceptability is not the same as public acceptance. The inevitable evaluative judgments must be explicit, opened to fully inclusive reasoned debate at every stage. If compensation of host communities distinguished from bribery, three conditions are required. First, potential sites selected according robust transparent criteria, which make sense independently offer. Secondly, future generations others unable directly participate adequately represented in deliberative processes: this regard, significant additional issues arise if establishment a facility legitimizes production radioactive waste. Thirdly, negotiated offered by trusted body independent nuclear industry. Utilitarian calculative approaches based on cost-benefit analysis fail for several reasons including value incommensurability “crowding out” intrinsic motivations.