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Nuclear Energy Policy and Environmentalism: Siting Nuclear Waste Facility

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2006, 17(1), pp.155-176
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Sung Roe Lee 1

1안동대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study explores the local residents' individual value system regarding the siting the nuclear waste facility in the northern Kyungbook province area including the Youngduk-kun and Pohang city, where several nuclear reactors are on operation. This paper found that the postindustrial values, new naturalism, and political ideology affect the individual value system regarding nuclear waste facilities. The respondents of the study show some significant public discontentment with accepting the dominant social ideologies of the economy-growth-first-policy and the national security. The respondents seem to begin recovering the traditional pro-naturalism and pro-environmental values. They show discontentment with fellow human's behavior that destroy the nature and environment, and with the egoism that put themselves at the center of the universe which results in the production of nuclear wastes as a result of nuclear fission technology. The respondents also show some significant ideological tints towards progressivism ranged from the independent foreign policy line from American alliance to the abolition of the national security law

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