Speaking about the “Environment” – topical change in Swedish nuclear waste discourse
Speaking about the “Environment” – topical change in Swedish nuclear waste discourse

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a rhetorical perspective on the Swedish project of nuclear waste management – how inventio has been shaped throughout the project, with focus on alignment of perspectives and adaptation of argument to achieve a solution to an urgent problem – finding a location for spent nuclear fuel repository. The study finds that the organizations representing the “environmental” perspective have gradually (1970s-2010s) integrated the argumentation of the nuclear industry into their own position. Also the treatment of “environment” as a material ground for argument has changed over the years – from a separated topic for the critics of the repository project, to a commonplace argument, and from a local value to a political notion.

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