Visualizing success -- Radiation and risk -- Multi-state compacts : seeking regional solutions -- First steps : the New Jersey siting process begins -- Connecticut and Illinois : the seeds of the voluntary siting process -- "One tough job : peddling radioactive waste" -- Culture -- Lessons from Roosevelt -- Elsinboro -- Selling snake oil at rotary clubs -- Nibbles -- Hamburg helper, or "dump dangles big carrot" -- Welcome to Allowayste -- More nibbles -- Planning for the general election -- Barnwell returns -- The Saturday paper -- "Lower thumps dump" -- "Somebody wants it" -- Environmental justice and other lessons from Fairfield -- Falling dominos -- The poll -- More planning for the election -- O little town of Bethlehem -- "An appalling lack of ignorance" -- A bureaucrat's journal from April 28, 1997, to February 12, 1998 -- Postscript--November 1998 -- The problem is solved -- In-state siting options -- Other states : Utah, North Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, and California -- High-level waste : the federal experience -- Environmentalism and risk: have we met the enemy? -- Fear of risk--it could happen -- Fear of government -- Making government work in a NIMBY age.