Costs and benefits of nuclear power

Journal Article · Thu Oct 18 04:00:00 EDT 1973 · New Sci., v. 60, no. 868, pp. 192-194

OSTI ID:4395379

Dunster, J

Several serious problems stand in the way of the systematic use of cost-- benefit analysis in radiological protection. The first of these is the need to assess social costs and benefits which in radiological protection, is complicated by the addition of a major emotional difficulty. In addition, the radiation detriment is delayed for tens of years compared with the time at which expenditure of money and effort is made to control the initiating radiation exposures. Another difficulty to be overcome is the high quality of information required for successful cost--benefit analysis, and the difficuliy in extrapolating the observed effects of very large doses delivered in shont times to low-level protracted exposure of workers is considered. ICRP have issued recommendations that exposures shall be kept as low as is readily achievable, economic and social considerations being taken into account''. ICRP has also just published ICRP Publication 22 (Pergamon Press, Oxford), in which the application of cost-benefit techniques to the choice of radiation exposure level is worked out in some detail. (UK)

• Research Organization: National Radiological Protection Board, Sutton, Eng.
• NSA Number: NSA-29-006786
• OSTI ID: 4395379
• Journal Information: New Sci., v. 60, no. 868, pp. 192-194, Journal Name: New Sci., v. 60, no. 868, pp. 192-194; ISSN NWSCA
• Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• Language: English

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