The University of Antwerp one of the major universities located in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.
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Politieke mobilisatie en nieuwe communicatietechnologie
Een multi-level studie van de Digital Divide
Stefaan Walgrave
Marc Hooghe
Lance Bennett
Dietlind Stolle
Betoelaagd door Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid in het kader van het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Samenleving en Toekomst’
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Lood Pb A.S. en L.M. presenteren
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Le cycle de Jespersen
à trois et quatre négations Johan van der Auwera
Frens Vossen
Centrum voor Grammatica, Cognitie en Typologie
Université d’Anvers Maud Devos
Musée royal
de l’Afrique Centrale
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Nuclear Community What does it mean to live in a ‘nuclear community’? There are two nuclear communities in Slovenia: Krško where the nuclear power plant is located and Dol pri Ljubljani where an experimental reactor and the central interim LILW storage for small producers are located. Besides Krško also nearby Brežice and Sevnica are active stakeholders in the siting process, but surprisingly also 2 others communities without nuclear facility (Lenart and Šmartno pri Litiji). Slovenia Different nuclear municipalities have different stakeholder identities in Sweden. These differences in identity are largely themselves a product of different ways of participating in the siting process for a deep repository for spent fuel. The existence of CLAB (storage of spent nuclear fuel) has given Oskarshamn reasons for being a more active stakeholder in the siting of a deep repository than Östhammar (already hosting a final repository for LILW). Sweden Currently no siting process in which communities might take up a stake. However, waste is produced and stored in or near about 30 communities around the country. At 17 locations around the country, community representatives are actively engaged as stakeholders in the current decommissioning process, involving significant volumes of ILW and LLW originating from power stations and other facilities. The most nuclear communities that are host to the most significant volumes of waste are (1) Drigg in Cumbria (already hosting the UK’s LLW repos...
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Localisation of Decisions To what extend can the localisation of decisions help to attain publicly supported collective decisions on troublesome siting issues in RWM? The decisions taken in the partnerships are related to a specific locality. The municipalities involved have a legal right to veto. The decision on the sitting issue is first taken by the partnerships, followed by the municipal councils. The final decision is to be taken by the government. Slovenia Municipal powers of veto have been essential to the formation of local stakeholder identities in Swedish municipalities. In a national siting process for a deep repository for spent fuel, local powers of veto also enable local stakeholders to 'move up a league' and exert influence on the national level helping to shape government decisions. Sweden The current national policy process is still at the options appraisal stage and has not yet begun to consider implementation or siting questions. The current stage involves both national stakeholder groups and local representatives from communities with an existing interest. At present what local decision making powers exist in relation to siting lie with the local planning authority but these can be overruled by the Secretary of State. UK The NWMO has recommended that: the siting process be collaboratively designed with affected “communities of interest” (including interest-based and site-based communities of interest); an informed willing host community be sought; it is...
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Institutions and Engagement What is the role of institutions (RWM agencies, regulators, etc.)? Should they play a purely technical role, or engage themselves also in social implications of RWM? ARAO (the Slovenian RWM agency) is a governmental agency with mainly technical expertise, but which for several years engages also services of social scientists and organizes cooperation with the public. Other institutions like the Slovenian nuclear safety administration and the Slovenian radiation protection administration have a regulating role. Slovenia The RWM organisation SKB is a private company owned by Swedish and German energy producers. It's activities are financed by the Swedish Nuclear Waste Fund (based on a 'polluter pays' tax on Swedish nuclear energy production). Two government authorities, the Swedish Nuclear Inspectorate (SKI) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Agency (SSI), closely monitor and evaluate SKB’s work. Swedish RWM is framed by the 1984 Act on Nuclear Activities and more recently by the Environmental Code from 1998. The institutional changes and new forms of engagement implied by recent environmental legislation are still taking shape and challenging the established institutional actors in the field. Sweden The RWM organization Nirex is a company created by the industry with Government backing but whose shares, since April 2005, are now owned by Government. It has mainly technical expertise but since 1997 has commissioned social science and ethical res...
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7th European Federation of EPR Groups Meeting and Closing Meeting of COST P15 Antwerp, Belgium
September 6-11, 2009 Jack FREED (USA)
Thomas PRISNER (Germany)
Martina HUBER (the Netherlands)
Astrid GRÄSLUND (Sweden)
Klaus LIPS (Germany) Website: www.efepr2009.ua.ac.be PLENARY LECTURERS nENDOR
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