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Intense concern is apparent in the controversy that nearly always erupts whenever search activities are conducted for a radioactive or other hazardous waste disposal facility. It is also apparent in the findings from a significant accumulation of polls, surveys, attitude studies, and psychometric research.
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· Particular technologies are viewed as having enormous disaster potentials, which contribute to the perception that they are risky technologies and to strong public concern about them (Slovic et al., 19821. The various opinion surveys suggest that radioactive and other hazardous wastes share many of the attributes associated with particularly feared technologies they are dread, relatively "new" hazards, seen as likely to be fatal, and viewed as having catastrophic potential.
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