Maryland Power Plant Siting Project: an application of the ORNL-Land Use Screening Procedure

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1975

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7314152· OSTI ID:7314152

Dobson, J E

Since 1974 the Resource Analysis Group in the Regional and Urban Studies Section of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been engaged in developing a procedure for regional and local siting analysis known as the ORNL Land Use Screening Procedure (LUSP). This document is the final report of the Maryland Power Plant Siting Project (MPPSP) in which the ORNL LUSP was used to identify candidate areas for power plant sites in northern Maryland. Numerous candidate areas are identified on the basis of four different siting objectives: the minimization of adverse ecologic impact, the minimization of adverse socioeconomic impact, the minimization of construction and operating costs, and a composite of all siting objectives. Siting criteria have been defined for each of these objectives through group processing techniques administered to four different groups of siting specialists. The siting priorities and opinions of each group have been expressed quantitatively and applied to a geographic information system containing 52 variables for each 91.8-acre cell in the northern eight counties of Maryland.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 7314152
• Report Number(s): ORNL/NUREG/TM-79
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CENTRAL REGION
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COST
ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
MARYLAND
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
POWER PLANTS
REACTOR SITES
SITE SELECTION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
USA