CEFOS, Center for Public Sector Research, vid Göteborgs universitet anordnar den 15-17 december 2009 en konferens med titel: "Managing Radioactive Waste – Problems and Challenges in a Globilizing World".
Plats: Göteborgs universitet, Handelshögskolan
Deadline för inkommande med abstracts: Obs förlängd tid! Nu senast 1 juni 2009
Anmälan för deltagande senast: 15 juni 2009
Conference Statement and Objective
"Dear Colleague,
We have the pleasure of inviting you to an inter-disciplinary research conference focusing on the management of spent fuel and high-level nuclear waste (HLW).
Many countries are at a crossroads in terms of maintaining their energy supply. The use of fossil fuels has reached a point when the existing resources appear to be dwindling, while combustion is contributing to rapidly accelerating climate change and global warming. Several national governments and energy companies regard nuclear power as one piece in the design of future sustainability, energy security, and economic prosperity. There are, however, grave downsides to a nuclear power renaissance. Besides the inevitable problems of nuclear weapons proliferation, the fact that no country has established a final waste repository for spent nuclear fuel and HLW throws fundamental doubt on nuclear energy expansion. Such an expansion would increase the total amount of waste, spread it over a growing number of countries, and postpone the final date for generating additional waste into the remote future. To that must be added that the processes of globalization have transformed the nuclear industry in the direction of increased rivatization, concentration, and internationalization. This leads to uncertainties regarding to who will assume responsibility and meet the challenges for developing safe and secure nuclear waste management.
In these circumstances is it of greatest importance that researchers from different disciplines and countries meet to share experiences. This conference will have the general objective of producing knowledge about the challenges caused by global developmental trends, and what the management of nuclear waste implies for contemporary and future social development."
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