One major goal of the Nuclear Standards Program is to convert existing NE standards into national consensus standards (where possible). This means that an NE standard in the same subject area using the national consensus process. This report is a summary of the activities that have evolved to...

A commercially available knowledge-engineering software development tool has been used to illustrate how regulatory compliance and productivity in the nuclear industry can be improved simultaneously. Given the complex nature of the industry regulatory requirements, organizations that rely...

A commercially available knowledge-engineering software development tool has been used to illustrate how regulatory compliance and productivity in the nuclear industry can be improved simultaneously. Given the complex nature of the industry regulatory requirements, organizations that rely...

The development of voluntary nuclear standards in the United States is an active and necessary endeavor of the technical community concerned with the safe, orderly, and economic development of the nuclear potential. There are almost 8000 people presently involved either in writing voluntary...

This areport explores the implications of an index-of-harm methodology that compares occupational risks among workers exposed to radiological and nonradiological harms. It extends the work of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than...

This paper complements other work which has evaluated the cost impacts of radiation standards on the nuclear industry. It focuses on the approaches to valuation of the health and safety benefits of radiation standards and the actual and appropriate processes of benefit-cost comparison. A brief...

This paper presents an assessment of the radiation dose to the world population and the associated potential health effects from three scenarios of /sup 14/C releases by the nuclear industry between 1975 and 2020. Measures of health impact are derived from source terms through the use of a...

This paper summarizes a quantitative tool developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to aid the NRC in establishing Material Control and Accounting (MC and A) regulations for safeguarding Special Nuclear Material (SNM). Illustrative Value-Impact results of demonstrating the methodology...

Technology to recover uranium from seawater may act as a potential backstop on the production cost of uranium in a growing international nuclear industry. Convincing proof of the existence of an effective expected upper limit on the resource price would have a strong effect on decisions relating...

Die Arbeit analysiert die Relevanz einer Ökonomischen Theorie der politischen Medienwirkung mit Beispielen aus der Energie- und Klimapolitik. Das Ziel ist zu zeigen, dass die These: 'der Public Choice Theorie fehlt eine Teiltheorie des politischen Medieneinflusses' nicht verworfen werden kann....