Evaluating the nation's risk assessors: nuclear power and the 'value of life'
Marin, A.
(1986).
Evaluating the nation's risk assessors: nuclear power and the 'value of life'.
Public Money and Management,
6(1), 41-45.
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 |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 1986 Blackwell Publishing |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Economics |
| Date Deposited | 10 Dec 2010 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30669 |
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