Nuclear Community

1. CARL Workshop Antwerp Nuclear Community What does it mean to live in a ‘nuclear community’? Context Discussion • Do you see yourself as a member of a ‘nuclear community’? What does this mean to you? • What is a ‘nuclear community’? How should it be delimited or defined (administratively, territorially,…)? • Does a nuclear community automatically have a stake in the national radwaste policy debate? Should a nuclear community automatically be assumed to have an interest in siting a radwaste store or repository? • Why do some communities identify themselves as stakeholders? How do they come to that identification? • Do you see nuclear communities as being deprived or in any sense ‘peripheral’ or marginalised? Could such a community today build a positive identity based on its nuclear character? Could SI play a role in this, and how? • What could be the advantages/disadvantages of taking up an active stakeholder role as a nuclear community (in the national RWM policy debate or in a siting process)? What could be the advantages/disadvantages of rejecting an active stakeholder role (in the national RWM policy debate/in a siting process)? • Could the involvement of “non-nuclear” communities in the debate on national radwaste policy, particularly where this concerns siting issues, bring added value ? • There appears to be a tendency towards the formation of an international stakeholder network of nuclear communities (as a counterbalance to the longstanding network of international nuclear experts). What are your feelings about this? What are your expectations regarding such an international network? November 30 – December 1, 2005