Peopling+a+Project+(2)


 * ** CATALYSTS ** || ** TYPES / GROUPS **


 * OF PEOPLE ** || ** CORROSIONS ** ||
 * -Stakeholder process

-Fukushima – increased awareness of nuclear risks || Environmental Groups || -Austerity

-“All of the above” energy strategies, near-complete lack of debate about nuclear disarmament

-Disagreement on nuclear as solution to climate change, pressure from nuclear lobby

-Decreasing funding for research & remediation ||
 * -National Lab

-Massive contracts

-Ability to position research as part of solution || Scientists / Engineers || -Decreasing funding for research & remediation (including, but not limited to, “sequestration”)

-Problem of uncertainty

-Bad record on whistleblowers /Dissent -Dangerous working conditions (?) ||
 * -Ability to administer the site and remediation efforts

-Management of contractors

-Relatively large budgets & staff, compared to other relevant actors

-Stakeholder process

-Ability to produce the “official” discourse, set terms of regulatory science, etc. || Federal Government Officials (especially DoE) || -Austerity

-Technical difficulties / whistleblowers with vitrification plant

-Stakeholder process

-History of mistrust

-State ability to regulate toxic/mixed waste ||
 * -Stakeholder process || First Nations (activists/government officials) || -Austerity

-Just another stakeholder (?) ||
 * -Hanford Concerns Council

-Stakeholder process || Labor Groups || -Austerity

-Bad record on whistleblowers /Dissent -Generally bad climate for labor

-Dangerous working conditions ||
 * -Stakeholder process || State Government Officials || -Austerity

-Inability to regulate radioactive waste

-DoE authority over site ||
 * -Close relationship w/DoE

-Bad climate for labor

-All of the above energy strategies || Contractors || -Austerity

-Technical difficulties / whistleblowers with vitrification plant

-Hanford Concerns Council ||
 * -Ongoing lawsuits || Downwinders || -Ongoing lawsuits

-Difficulties of linking exposure and illness

-Not eligible for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 (?)

-Illnesses

-Austerity – particularly any cuts to health care and disability programs ||