Land use suitability screening for power plant sites in Maryland

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1975

OSTI ID:4178897

Dobson, J E

Since 1974 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been engaged in developing an automated procedure for land use suitability screening. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has funded the project to aid in the selection of power plant sites in Maryland. Its purpose is to identify candidate areas from which specific candidate sites can be chosen for detailed analyses. The ORNL approach assures that certain key variables are examined empirically for every cell in the study region before candidate sites are selected. Each variable is assigned an importance weight and compatibility score based upon its effect on the economic, social, or ecologic costs associated with construction in a given cell. The weighted scores for each variable are aggregated and output as a suitability score for each cell. (auth)

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA)
• NSA Number: NSA-33-005595
• OSTI ID: 4178897
• Report Number(s): CONF-751122--1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

*MARYLAND-- LAND USE
*NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS-- SITE SELECTION
510500* --Environmental Sciences
Terrestrial--Site Resource & Use Studies
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
DATA COMPILATION
ECONOMY
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
N44500* --Environmental & Earth Sciences--Site Surveys
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SOCIOLOGY