Public policy issues in nuclear waste management

Comparative analysis of network television news coverage of nuclear power, coal, and solar stories

“…The rest of the issues were mentioned less than 10 percent of the time. Many of the issues that receive a fair amount of attention among the "insider expert" participants in the nuclear debate (Hebert, Rankin, Brown, Schuller, Smith, Goodnight, and Lippek, 1978;Nealey and Radford, 1978)--candor to the public by the government, the public's right to participate in the nuclear decision-making process, concerns over maintenance of civil liberties, and obligations to future generations--have received little attention in the television news casts.…”