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Appendix F: Commentary on Representative Safety Goals and Approaches
Appendix F: Commentary on Representative Safety Goals and Approaches
Pages 103-105
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Environmental Safety Acceptable environmental safety is even more complex an issue than acceptable public safety, since esthetic and fundamental philosophical considerations are involved as well as objective measures of actual and potential damage. As to public safety, actual practice shows that activities contributing less than 0.1 percent of the total average yearly risk of death or disability (less than 1 in 1,000)
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The goals usually are in the range of one expected effect per ten thousand to one million exposed individuals. The target range is large because of the inherent uncertainties in extrapolation of animal data to The three data bases are License Event Report, which is NRC recorded onsite and which deals with lessons learned for any nonstandard events, including safety-related ones, as defined by the operating license; the Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System, which is a report maintained by the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)
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This zero-risk approach involved serious absurdities once it was recognized that nearly all classes of foodstuffs, in a natural unadulterated condition, contain substances that are carcinogenic in animal tests. The risk assessment methodology has provided a defensible basis for establishing that sufficiently small amounts of such substances are acceptable and probably necessary for life itself.
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