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Ethan T Wilding¹

¹Philosophy Department, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W., Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada. ethan.wilding@uwaterloo.ca

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Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization's ethical framework is critically examined. The framework is found to be flawed, lacking principles and offering unsatisfiable claims, rendering it ethically unacceptable for managing nuclear waste.

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Area of Science:

Nuclear Waste Management Ethics
Applied Ethics in Environmental Policy
Risk Communication and Consent

Background:

Ethical frameworks guide professional decision-making but often lack critical scrutiny.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) claims ethically responsible management of Canada's high-level nuclear fuel waste.
The NWMO's ethical framework is central to its claim of responsible stewardship.

Purpose of the Study:

To critically evaluate the NWMO's ethical and social framework for managing nuclear waste.
To determine if the NWMO's ethical framework meets minimum requirements for ethical guidance.
To assess the satisfiability of the NWMO's ethical claims, particularly regarding informed consent.

Main Methods:

Critical analysis of the NWMO's ethical framework document.
Evaluation against established criteria for ethical codes and principles.
Examination of specific claims, such as informed consent, for logical and practical feasibility.

Main Results:

The NWMO's framework is deficient, offering only questions rather than actionable principles or rules.
Key components of the framework, when interpreted as rules, are found to be unsatisfiable.
The claim to seek informed consent from individuals at risk from nuclear waste is demonstrably not satisfiable as formulated.

Conclusions:

The NWMO's ethical framework fails to provide adequate ethical guidance for nuclear waste management.
The framework's inherent flaws and unsatisfiable claims render it ethically unacceptable in its current form.
Revisions are necessary to establish a robust and ethically sound framework for nuclear waste stewardship.