The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance

lt;b>Maarten J Arentsen is associate professor emeritus energy innovation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.Rinie van Est is research coordinator at the Rathenau Instituut and professor of Technology Assessment and Governance at Eindhoven University of Technology (School of Innovation Sciences).

Introduction: The governance challenge of radioactive waste management.- Long-term radioactive waste management in the Netherlands: Seeking guidance for decision-making.- Nuclear Waste Governance in Italy: between participation rhetoric and regionalism.- Do you care about High-level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel? Opportunities for co-constructing an appropriate governance-ecosystem in Belgium.- The long road towards the soft nuclear repository state Nuclear waste governance in Germany.- The melancholic lock. High-Level Radioactive Waste Governance in Spain.- Who Decides What is Safe? Experiences from Radioactive Waste Governance in Switzerland.- UK nuclear waste policy: 50 wasted years.- The governance ecosystem of radioactive waste management in France: governing of and with mistrust.- Radioactive waste management in Sweden: Decision making in a context of scientific controversy.- The Finnish solution to final disposal of spent nuclear fuel.- European lessons for governance of long-term radioactive waste management.