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Previously proposed cost-effectiveness values for avoiding radiation doses
have ranged from $10 to $2000 per person-rem. According to the 1993 HPS Position
Statement on "Radiation Dose Limits for the General Public", for doses
<1.0 rem , "a few tens of dollars per person-rem" is
recommended. For higher individual dose levels, as high as "a few
hundred dollars per person-rem avoided" is suggested. Of course, having an
"elastic" cost-effectiveness value for doses within the
stochastic range would seem to be economic nonsense (unless one could make
a case ,for example, that a 100 mrem dose increase from say 2900 to 3000
mrem does more incremental harm than does an increase from 900 to
1000mrem). The belief that such "elasticity" is a valid
presumption would preclude acceptance of the linear dose-effect model.
In any case, one can't have it both ways. All things considered,
IMHO, a single cost-effectiveness value of $100/person-rem ,
(or $10,000/pesron-sievert) of dose avoided for all
doses within the stochastic range ( 0 to 5.0 rem) would seem to be
reasonable.
On the other hand, if hormesis ever becomes the accepted paradigm,
cost-effectiveness may have to be expressed in terms of $/person-rem received
and the dose recipient may have to compensate the dose provider, but that's
another story. I hope this has been helpful.
> >Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:33:05 -0700 (PDT) >From: sjmaeng@dava.kepco.co.kr >To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu >Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ManRem Cost?= >Message-ID: <-89487.938525825@dava.hq> > >Dear Radsafers, > > >I am preparing a lecture note on a seminar where I am supposed to make a presentation >on updated manrem cost. > >It would be very much appreciated if you out there in the sea of radsafe could >email me the recent manrem cost which is currently applied in nuclear power plants. > > >Please email me directly at sjmaeng@dava.kepco.co.kr > > --------------cost/manrem ------- name of the plant----- > > >Thank you in advance. > > >Sung-Jun Maeng(Mr) >Nuclear Environment Technology Institute >Korea Electric Power Corporation >South Korea > >email : sjmaeng@dava.kepco.co.kr > |