Equity aspects of risk management: trade-offs between public and occupational hazards in the nuclear industry

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981 · Nucl. Saf.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5698298

Lombard, J ^[1]; Fagnani, F

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1. Centre d'Etude sur l'Evaluation de la Protection dans le Domaine Nucleaire, Fontenay aux Roses, France

Equity problems arise in risk management whenever a situation justifies dividing the exposed population into specific subgroups. The usual practice in radiation protection in the nuclear fuel cycle, which consists roughly in dividing the population into two groups (plant employees and the general public), assumes that management of the protection system for each group is relatively independent. But in the case of public protection against risks associated with pressurized-water reactors, for example, we show that this hypothesis of independence is not valid and that there are significant risk trade-offs between the public and the employees. This leads us to question the valuation of the implicit value of a man-sievert, depending on whether one is dealing with employees or the public, for the answer to this question strongly affects the result of any optimization of choices in radiation protection.

• OSTI ID: 5698298
• Journal Information: Nucl. Saf.; (United States), Journal Name: Nucl. Saf.; (United States) Vol. 22:5; ISSN NUSAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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