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Richard B. Stewart, U.S. Nuclear Waste Law and Policy: Fixing a Bankrupt System, 17 NYU Env. L.J. 783 (2008). Another blistering critique of the program from a decade earlier can be found in James Flynn, Roger E Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther, and Paul Slovic, Redirecting the U.S. High-Level Nuclear Waste Program, 39 Env. 6 (April 1997).
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It seems initially plausible to exclude such remote risks, but there are two important caveats. First, some of the unlikely events could have such significant consequences that they are worth considering. Second, there may be a number of such risks that cumulatively could add to the overall level of risk - if there are ten 1/10,000 risks of containment failure, this adds up to almost 1/1000. (Almost because of the possibility that more than one risk might eventuate in any given scenario.)
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Suppose that we had a hundred situations with different models but the same statistics - an 80% probability that a model is correct which shows zero risk, and a 20% probability that a competing model is right predicting a 10% risk of harm. (So we have one situation with Models A and B, another with Models C and D, etc., each pair of models satisfying this description.) Out of those hundred situations, we would expect that the second model in the pair would be right about twenty times, and of those twenty times, we would expect the risk to materialize in two cases.
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