How can we be sure that we are working on the right risks? / Roger Kasperson, B. Ram, and S. Ratick -- Whose views really matter in the end? / Roger Kasperson, Paul Slovic, Nick Pidgeon, and Ortwin Renn -- How do we move forward when there is no trust? / Seth Tuler, Roger Kasperson, Dominic...

Sweden and France are in many respects in the vanguard of high-level radioactive waste disposal efforts, and they offer sharp contrasts regarding basic strategies and underlying philosophies for waste management. We compare their waste disposal programs for insight into the dilemma of siting and...