The Ethics of Nuclear Energy : Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era (Paperback)

1. The ethics of nuclear energy: an introduction Behnam Taebi and Sabine Roeser; Part I. Risk: 2. Nuclear energy and the ethics of radiation protection Sven Ove Hansson; 3. The unknowable ceilings of safety: three ways that nuclear accidents escape the calculus of risk assessments John Downer; 4. Rights to know and the Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island accidents Kristin Shrader-Frechette; 5. Gender, ethical voices, and UK nuclear energy policy in the post-Fukushima era Karen Henwood and Nick Pidgeon; Part II. Justice: 6. The need for a public 'explosion' in the ethics of radiological protection, especially for nuclear power Stephen M. Gardiner; 7. Distributive versus procedural justice in nuclear waste repository siting Pius Krutli, Kjell Tornblom, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer and Michael Stauffacher; 8. Nuclear energy, justice, and power: the case of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station license renewal Bindu Panikkar and Ronald Sandler; 9. Non-anthropocentric nuclear energy ethics John Nolt; Part III. Democracy: 10. Morally experimenting with nuclear energy Ibo van de Poel; 11. Global nuclear energy and international security Thomas E. Doyle, II; 12. Nuclear energy, the capability approach, and the developing world Paolo Gardoni and Colleen Murphy; 13. The role of nuclear energy in the future energy landscape: energy scenarios, nuclear energy and sustainability Rafaela Hillerbrand; Bibliography; Index.