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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.
Reiner Papp, Herbert Loser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 228-235
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33787
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Within the framework of the fuel cycle evaluation that has been conducted between 1981 and 1985 by Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center in the Federal Republic of Germany, radiological safety has been considered an essential assessment criterion. The collective doses from normal operation turned out to exceed markedly the accidental doses associated with all stations at the back end of the fuel cycles. Both occupational and nonoccupational doses in the fuel cycle based on fuel reprocessing are higher than those from the once-through cycle, but radiological exposure of the population consists mainly of small individual doses that are only a small fraction of the doses due to natural background radiation.
