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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Eduard Hofer, Vijen Javeri, Horst Löffler, Dankward F. Struwe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | February 1985 | Pages 180-225
Technical Paper | Fabrication of Components of the Creys-Malville Plant / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33554
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Within the framework of the risk-oriented analysis for the Schneller Natriumgekühlter Reaktor (SNR)-300, a survey of expert opinion was conducted in 1982 to obtain a probability distribution for the work energy release caused by an unprotected loss-of-flow (ULOF) accident. A comprehensive questionnaire on the relevant phenomena was distributed to experts from 18 organizations involved in fast breeder safety. Basic to the probabilistic procedure are the two customary concepts of probability:
