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Value/impact analysis for evaluating alternative mitigation systems

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5578904
Methods are developed for assessing the cost effectiveness of proposed systems and strategies for mitigating the consequences of severe nuclear accidents. Such mitigation systems consist mostly of devices for improving the ability of a reactor containment to survive such an accident and retain all radioactive materials. Value/impact analysis is applied to the system with and without mitigation, using the population dose averted by mitigation as the value of benefit, and the dollar cost of the containment improvements as the impact. Other considerations affecting such analyses include ways of monetizing public health risk, economic discounting, and the effect of interdiction policy and other post-accident recovery costs.
Research Organization:
R and D Associates, Marina del Rey, CA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5578904
Report Number(s):
NUREG/CR-4243; ON: TI88900343
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English