Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1977
Abstract
In view of the requirement that the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission must specify land-use/population density control measures to be used in the vicinity of nuclear power plants being granted land use, the possible forms of such measures are examined. Since these measures must maintain population densities below Nuclear Regulatory Commission criteria, if appropriate, NRC criteria for land use and population densities are given particular attention. In addition, a preliminary comparison of the cost of possible control measures with the reduced potential for damage to the public health and safety is made, yielding the result that control measures within approximately one mile of the plant site may be justified, in certain cases, on a strictly cost-benefit basis. However it not clear whether controls over such a limited region would satisfy the legal mandate.
Citation
A. V. Nero, C.H. Schroeder & W. W.S. Yen, Control of Population Densities Surrounding Nuclear Power Plants (Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1977) (Health and Safety Impacts of Nuclear, Geothermal, and Fossil-Fuel Electric Generation in California, v. 5)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Nuclear power plants--Safety measures, Nuclear power plants--Location, Electric power production--Health aspects
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