A cost/risk analysis of evacuation options

Technical Report · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6981475

Tawil, J J; Strenge, D L

In this paper we evaluate the costs and risks associated with evacuating an area threatened by a nuclear power plant accident. The risks refer to the expected health effects from radiation dose that would be received by individuals if they did not evacuate, while the costs refer to the evacuation costs. For a given dispersion of radionuclides, the evacuation costs will vary primarily with 1) the exposure risk level, which determines the outer boundaries of the evacuation zone, and 2) the shape of the evacuation zone. Results are produced for a range of exposure risk levels and for two evacuation zone configurations. One configuration minimizes the number of evacuees for a given exposure risk level; the second is easier to implement.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6981475
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-13737; ON: DE88013185
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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