Re: Cost of a Person-Sievert -- LNT and all that

[Darryl Kaurin <kaurin@mail.sep.bnl.gov>]

Dear Joyce,

At 03:40 PM 2/3/97 -0600, you wrote:
>In this month's HP Journal there is an article by Guenther & Thein
>"Estimated Cost of Person-Sv Exposure".  

They have a pretty good list of references, but it is surprizing they didn't
reference 
Baum, J.W. "Value ot Public Health and Safety Actions and Radiation Dose
Avoided". NUREG/CR-6212, BNL-NUREG-52413, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, D.C. May, 1994.

Baum gave a value of $750-$1,500 per public-rem based on willingness-to-pay
surveys of risk and risk coefficients given in ICRP 60.

Darryl Kaurin, Ph.D.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Safety and Environmental Protection Division
Building 535A
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(516)344-3166
kaurin@mail.sep.bnl.gov