The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement and Discourses of Energy Justice

Jesse P. Van Gerven

doi:10.5771/9781793620460

Summary

Jesse P. Van Gerven critically analyzes the movement for a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future in the U.S. using an environmental justice framework. Van Gerven explores how different social and environmental justice discourses are constructed through the claims of social movement organizations. This study shows how ideas of distribution, recognition, and representation structure the arguments made by anti-nuclear groups against the production of nuclear power. Through this analysis the author identifies general principals of energy justice. These principles can guide future energy policy and energy system development to ensure social and environmental justice.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2045-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2046-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 158
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Introduction/Empirical Problematic No access
2. Nuclear Power 101 and the Nuclear Fuel Chain No access
3. Social Movement Studies, Environmental Justice, and Moral Philosophy No access
4. Methodology and Data Sources No access
1. Round One (April and May 2010): $9 Billion Authorization in an “Emergency Supplemental Funding Bill” No access
2. Round Two (June and July 2010): $36 Billion in the FY 2011 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill No access
3. Round Three (June–July 2010): $9 Billion in Any Bill That Could Clear the Senate No access
4. Round Four (December 2010): $9 Billion in the “Continuing Resolution” No access
5. Round Five (February–June 2011): $36 Billion in FY 2012 Budget Request No access
Chapter 2: High-Level Radioactive Waste Management No access Pages 57 - 92
1. CWIP Financing for New Nuclear Reactor Construction No access
2. Local Efforts to Increase the Safety of Nuclear Reactors No access
1. Potential Principles of Energy Justice No access
2. Common Progression of the Dimensions of Injustice No access
3. Ethics and Innovation No access
4. Potential Conceptual and Methodological Shortcomings No access
References No access Pages 143 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 156
About the Author No access Pages 157 - 158