Proceedings of the CEC/USDOE workshop on uncertainty analysis

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6779459

Elderkin, C E ^[1]; Kelly, G N ^[2]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
2. eds.; Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium)

In recent years it has become increasingly important to specify the uncertainty inherent in consequence assessments and in the models that trace radionuclides from their source, through the environment, to their impacts on human health. European and US scientists have, been independently developing and applying methods for analyzing uncertainty. It recently became apparent that a scientific exchange on this subject would be beneficial as improvements are sought and as uncertainty methods find broader application. The Commission of the European Communities (CEC) and the Office of Health and Environmental Research of the US Department of Energy (OHER/DOE), through their continuing agreement for cooperation, decided to co-sponsor the CEC/USDOE Workshop on Uncertainty Analysis. CEC's Radiation Protection Research Programme and OHER's Atmospheric Studies in Complex Terrain Program collaborated in planning and organizing the workshop, which was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 13 through 16, 1989. As the workshop progressed, the perspectives of individual participants, each with their particular background and interests in some segment of consequence assessment and its uncertainties, contributed to a broader view of how uncertainties are introduced and handled. This proceedings contains, first, the editors' introduction to the problem of uncertainty analysis and their general summary and conclusions. These are then followed by the results of the working groups, and the abstracts of individual presentations.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6779459
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-18372; EUR-13044-EN; CONF-8911195-; ON: DE91000454
• Resource Relation: Conference: CEC/USDOE workshop on uncertainty analysis, Santa Fe, NM (USA), 13-16 Nov 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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