Are we paying too much to reduce radiological risk?

摘要

In 2000, the DoE budget request to Congress included $5.9 billion for Environmental Management (EM) and $154 million for Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H). The former includes all clean-up activities for past defence activities. The latter deals primarily with workers' safety and health. However, EM also has some expenditures related to worker safety. There have been several studies discussing DoE-generated risks to budget proposals and expenditures. However, these have dealt with the subject in a general way, and have not directly related expenditures to total risks of a DoE site or sites.