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Evaluating the nation's risk assessors: nuclear power and the 'value of life'

Marin, Alan (1986) Evaluating the nation's risk assessors: nuclear power and the 'value of life'. Public Money and Management, 6 (1). pp. 41-45. ISSN 0954-0962

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Abstract

Nuclear power, like transport and most of the everyday activities monitored by the Health & Safety Executive, imposes risks-occasionally, as Chernobyl showed, catastrophic ones - on all of us. Yet in principle, the value of reducing them should be measured in the same way. In fact, widely differing values are in use. It is time a common basis of measurement was adopted.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0954-0962
Additional Information: © 1986 Blackwell Publishing
Divisions: Economics
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2010 14:48
Last Modified: 02 Jan 2024 21:12
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30669

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