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Title

  • Main Title Facilitating relative comparisons of health impacts from postulated accidents in environmental impact statements

Creator

  • Author: Mueller, C.J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Argonne National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Illinois
    Additional Info: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1996-05-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Current US Department of Energy (DOE) guidance on the performance of accident analyses supported an environmental impact statement (EIS) stresses a graded approach that emphasizes the most important risks, calls for the evaluation of frequencies as well as consequences for severe accident scenarios, and discourages the use of bounding analyses that confound risk comparisons among EIS alternatives. This paper discusses methods in probabilistic risk analysis that were developed and applied in defining accidents and generating radiological source terms for the DOE Draft Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (WM PEIS); publication of the Final WM PEIS is due in late summer 1996. The strengths and shortcomings of the cited probabilistic risk analysis methods used to evaluate facility accidents are addressed, both as they relate to the WM PEIS and as they relate to more general EIS applications. Key guidance is discussed that was developed by DOE and used in shaping the techniques cited herein for application in an EIS. Related perceptions on accidents observed from the public comment process for the WM PEIS are cited. Finally, recommendations are made on the basis of needs as well as lessons learned in implementing the accident analysis for the WM PEIS.
  • Physical Description: 12 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Probability
  • Keyword: Radioactive Materials
  • STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
  • Keyword: Environmental Impact Statements
  • STI Subject Categories: 29 Energy Planning And Policy
  • Keyword: Planning
  • Keyword: Radiation Hazards
  • Keyword: Hazardous Materials
  • Keyword: Health Hazards
  • Keyword: Risk Assessment
  • Keyword: Comparative Evaluations

Source

  • Conference: 21. annual conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals: practical environmental directions - a changing agenda, Houston, TX (United States), 2-6 Jun 1996

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE96010794
  • Report No.: ANL/EA/CP--88164
  • Report No.: CONF-960648--5
  • Grant Number: W-31109-ENG-38
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 231530
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc670387

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE96010794
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