I think this is an area of discussion. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future looked at this issue. They said that consensus was an important piece of siting, that siting decisions weren't just technical decisions, but they were also societal.
McNerney discusses the need for local consensus in nuclear waste site decisions.
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What consumers need today is, instead, a robust Commission, empowered to go after truly bad actors in the marketplace.
Well, the French postmodernists in the 1930's--1930's and 1940's were sort of warning us that the government would be getting more and more information about us and being able to use that information to control our political decisionmaking…
I think the technology being discussed here represents a great potential to simultaneously eliminate economic loss while addressing harmful emissions.
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